Charges against NGO director 

ArmInfo. The Anti-Corruption Committee of the Republic of Armenia has established that the director of a commercial organization, both individually and as part of a group, paid bribes to various officials to commit illegal  actions on his behalf.  

Specifically, the director of a commercial  organization, acting as part of a group of individuals, paid a bribe  of 2 million drams in 2024 to a Yerevan City Hall official to resolve  issues related to expired technical specifications for gas supply  work at a building under construction in Yerevan and to prepare the  necessary documents. Furthermore, in 2024, he paid a total of  approximately 500,000 drams in bribes to officials of the Urban  Development, Technical, and Fire Safety Inspectorate to issue permits  for unfinished work and operation carried out through his company at  five different locations.

During the preliminary investigation in 2024, the following was also  established: in October, the director of the aforementioned  organization paid 300,000 drams in bribes to employees of commercial  organizations to falsify relevant documents related to the  construction of a gas distribution station for state needs and to  include false information about the completion of the work. 

Furthermore, in 2024, the organization's director bribed officials of  the Yerevan Municipality in the amount of 400,000 drams to avoid  administrative liability for carrying out construction work on a  community-owned plot of land without permission and for the illegal  construction of a sewer system.

It was also established that in January 2025, he conspired with  another individual to bribe an official of the Conscription and  Mobilization Service of the RA Ministry of Defense in order to  arrange for the exemption of the individual from compulsory military  service without the necessary grounds stipulated by law. A case has  also been opened within the criminal proceedings regarding the  receipt of consent for a company owned by the same individual to  ensure the recognition of the winner of tenders announced for the  needs of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the bribery of the  RA Ministry of Internal Affairs official using the resulting income.  For the above-mentioned criminal acts, the director of the commercial  organization was charged under Article 273, Part 2, Clause 3 (2  counts); Article 436, Part 2, Clauses 1 and 3 (2 counts); Article  436, Part 2, Clause 3 (5 counts); and Article 437, Part 1 of the RA  Criminal Code. He was placed under arrest, which was later commuted  to house arrest and bail.

The preliminary investigation of the criminal case has been  completed, and the case materials have been sent to the RA  Anti-Corruption Court with the indictment.