S.G., while serving in the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense, by providing funds and removing obstacles, during the years 2000-2010, assisted V.G., who was in a marital relationship with her, using his official position, to embezzle 17 million drams ( From 17 June, 1997 to 2 October, 2010, V.G. was the head of the Department of the Military Police (from 3 February, 2007 – Military Police) of the RA Ministry of Defense, and from 16 October, 2010 to 1 November2011: the positions of the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia).
In particular, from 11 May, 2000 to 24 July, 2008, S.G. served as the head of the analysis group of the Department of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense, the Department of Combating Servicemen Voluntary left the Left the Military Unit and Deserters, from 24 July, 2008 to 24 July, 2010, and then position of Senior Officer of the same division, between 1 July, 2010 to 24 November, 2011, and further was transferred to the Police Personnel Department.
Further, V.G., knowing that S.G., who was in a marital relationship with him, did not attend the service for more than eleven years, from May 2000 to November 2011, and never performed the official duties arising from the position, not only did not take preventive measures, but during the years 2000-2010, he signed the drafts of the annual budget of the Military Police of the Ministry of Defense, the transfers sent to the treasury of the Ministry of Finance or entered into the treasury program, which also included the data of S.G. As a result, during the mentioned period, S.G. was actually paid a particularly large amount as salary and other monetary satisfactions, over 17 million drams during the years 2000-2010.
In another case, V.G., assisted by S.G., abused his official position, carelessly causing serious consequences. In particular, V.G., occupying the position of RA Chief of Police in 2011-2018, violating the relevant requirement of the law, that is, a police officer is prohibited from serving jointly with persons related by close kinship or in-laws, appointed his wife, S.G., a senior referent of the RA Chief of Police. After being appointed to the position, during the years 2011-2018, S.G. regularly did not report to work and performed her official duties improperly, without reports to his superiors about giving her leave and orders to grant leave based on them, in a number of cases was absent from the Republic of Armenia for different periods of time, due to which she did not report for service. Under these conditions, by the orders of 30 December, 2011 and 30 December, 2016, she was awarded the special titles of “lieutenant colonel”, then “colonel”, and 19 million drams were transferred in his name.
According to the decision of the supervising prosecutor, a public criminal prosecution was initiated against S.G., according to Article 46-256, Part 3, Clause 3 of the Criminal Code (aiding and abetting the embezzlement of especially large amounts of entrusted property) and the Criminal Code adopted on 18.04.2003 Article 38-308, part 2 (aiding and abetting the abuse of official authority).
The Supervising Prosecutor approved the indictment on 21 August, 2023 and handed it over to the Anti-Corruption Court along with the materials of the proceedings.
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.
