One more criminal case on pensions sent to court

կենսաթոշակIn the framework of the criminal case initiated on the abuses recorded in the process of fixing and paying pensions the preliminary investigation on the part of abuses found in territorial subdivision “Kentron -1” was completed. The prosecutor implementing prosecutorial supervision confirmed the bill of indictment and the case was sent to court.

According to the evidence obtained during pre-trial proceeding the payer-inspector of “Kentron – 1” territorial subdivision of paying service of social security state service staff of RA Ministry of Labor and Social affairs A. Musheghyan had swindled pension money in particularly large amount.

Particularly, according to the materials of the criminal case being aware that some pensioners were out of the country or dead, as well as being informed that the fact of pensioners’ death is not known in territorial subdivision of social security state service and the data of the dead pensioners were still involved in pension payment list, from 2006 to 2010 A. Musheghyan falsifying the pensioners’ signatures involved in payment lists, which were official documents, had drawn out the pension money in their names and had squandered a significant amount of pension money of 3.136.212 AMD.

On the base of the evidence obtained by the preliminary investigation implemented in the Investigation Department of Especially Important Cases of General Investigation Department of RA Police adjunct to government A. Musheghyan was accused according to the Point 1 of the Part 3 of the Article 179 and the Part 1 of the Article 325 of RA Criminal Code. The criminal case with the bill of indictment was sent to the Court of First Instance of Kentron and Norq-Marash administrative districts.

We remind that in May, 2011 in State Interests Protection Department of RA Prosecutor General’s Office a criminal case was initiated on the abuses recorded in the process of fixing and paying pensions the preliminary investigation of which was tasked to the Investigation Department of Especially Important Cases of General Investigation Department of RA Police adjunct to government.