According to the preliminary investigation carried out in the criminal proceedings investigated by the Anti-Corruption Committee, it was justified that A. H., who served in the Ministry of Defense in 1997-2011, and who held the position of Deputy Head of the 4th Department and Head of the 5th Department of the General Department on Combating Organized Crime in 2011-2018, while holding the above-mentioned public service positions, he illegally participated in business activities, as well as engaged in other corrupt activities, as a result of which he hid and distorted the real nature, criminal origin and ownership of the acquired properties and paid money, giving them a legal form..

The Anti-Corruption reported Committee.

In particular, the preliminary investigation revealed that in 2008-2010 during A. H. acquired a 100% share of “Urbanizm-Petrol” LLC and, legally registering it, in the name of his wife, and minor son, who had not previously carried out entrepreneurial activity in any field, he actually participated in the management of the company through them. In order to hide and distort the true nature and criminal origin of the money received as a result of that and other alleged illegal activities, in 2011, A.H. acquired the real estate worth 75 million AMD in the city of Abovyan, Kotayk region, and the fictitious value of the property was stated in the contract of sale of 3 million AMD. Besides, in 2012 and 2013. A. H. acquired the real estates located on Amiryan and Hanrepetut streets in Yerevan for 120 million and 204 million 250 thousand AMD, respectively, and in 2014, acquired with 144 million 375 thousand AMD the 100% share of “OVSAS” LLC

Realizing that the values ​​of the mentioned properties significantly exceed the legal incomes of himself and his family members, A. H. alienated them to family members and close people with formal contracts of donation and sale, thus hiding the true ownership of the property acquired through criminal means.

Thus, it was proved that A. H. legalized particularly large amounts of real estate acquired through criminal means: 351 million 497 thousand 422 AMD and real estate worth 75 million AMD.

In addition, A.H., who actually performed the functions of the head of the security service of the former Chief of the RA Police V.G., in 2013-2014, as part of a group with the Chief of the RA Police V.G., with a prior agreement, he carried out laundering of the property purchased by the latter with particularly large amounts of money obtained by criminal means, hiding and distorting the source of origin, rights and ownership of the property.

In particular, V.G. being a high-ranking official with the duty to submit a declaration, in 2013, in order to avoid the attention of law enforcement authorities and possible liability in case of declaring valuable property in his name, he turned to A.H., who actually performs the functions of the head of his security service, to assist in hiding the origin of part of the property obtained through criminal means, instructing the latter to purchase vehicles from “Avangard Motors” LLC and register them in A.H.’s name.

For this purpose, based on the mentioned assignment, on in 2013 and 2014, A.H. purchased a “Mercedes-Benz G 500” and “Mercedes-Benz S 500L” cars from “Avangard Motors” LLC with AMD 71 million 556 thousand and on AMD 80,200,000, registering them in his name.

In addition, the preliminary examination also proved that A.H.  deliberately did not include in the annual declaration submitted to the Ethics Commission of RA High-ranking Officials on in the annual declaration submitted to the Commission on Ethics of RA High-Ranking Officials on 22 March, 2018 and hid the amount of a loan of 100,000 USD provided to him by one of the banks on 23 August, 2017, which led to non-declaration the above mentioned particularly large property.

Based on the above, A. H. was charged under Article 190, Part 3, Clause 1 (Chapter 2, Money Laundering) and Article 314.3, Part 2 (hiding the data to be declared) of the former Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia.

The criminal investigation regarding H.A. has been completed. The materials of the proceedings with the indictment were sent to the supervising prosecutor with a request to approve it and send it to the court.

Note: A person that is suspected or accused of an alleged crime is considered innocent until his/her guilt is proved by a court judgment that has come into legal effect pursuant to the procedure determined by RA Criminal Procedure Code.