The preliminary investigation of the criminal case carried out in the Special Investigation Service of the RA revealed and confirmed the fact that on 23 July 2014, Judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Lori marz Khachatur Khachatryan, had made a decision to accept into proceeding the bankruptcy petition of the bank with request to declare forced insolvent “Zosekar” LLC. On 23 July 2014, the judge ruled a decision on recognizing the LLC insolvent. As of 2 October 2014 the debt of “Zosekar” LLC to the bank totaled to 517 mln 940 ths USD. The LLC’s obligations were secured by the real estate. During the bankruptcy process, in the framework of his authorities, in order to carry out certain activities in favor of the director of the mentioned LLC, as well as using the authority issuing from his position, and in order to ensure the bank liabilities of the LLC to prolong the process of the sales from the auction of the property which was mortgaged in the bank till March 2015, and thus providing opportunity to S. Karapetyan to purchase the mentioned property, on November 2014, judge Khachatryan requested and received a large amount of bribe, which totaled to10,000 USD.
The Head of LLC agreed to the judge’s demand to give a bribe in especially large amount. During the next meeting with the director, the judge increased the amount of the bribe. On 20 December 2014 he demanded and on 25 December 2014 at about 18:30, in his office he received from S.Karapetyan personally a bribe of especially large amount – 9mln186thousand AMD (equivalent to 20.000USD). Just after receiving the bribe he was arrested by the representatives of the National Security service.
According to information the NSS of the RA has initiated a criminal case under the requirements of Clause 2 and 3 of Part 4 of Article 311 of the Criminal Code of the RA. On 29 December, Court of General Jurisdiction of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative district of Yerevan city has detained the judge for two months.
The Investigation of the criminal case has accomplished in the proceeding of the RA Special Investigation Service and the case with the accusation opinion has been handed over to the judicial control of the prosecutor for approval and submission to the court.
Note: The suspect or the accused of the alleged offence is deemed innocent unless his or her innocence is proved by virtue of the effective court verdict in the manner prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia.
Information Department of the RA Special Investigation Service
