Social worker charged with bribery 

ArmInfo. The RA Anti-Corruption Committee has established that a senior social worker at the Talin Regional Center of the Unified Social Service of the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs received bribes of varying amounts from a number of individuals in exchange for illegal actions on their  behalf.

Specifically, during the preliminary investigation, it was  established that the aforementioned official included false  information about the place of residence and living conditions of a  number of individuals in the records of their scores above the family  insecurity threshold and receipt of family benefits, deliberately  distorting the facts and making them recipients of family benefits,  for which he received bribes of varying amounts from them. A senior  social worker in the Talinsky District Center has been charged with  bribery, fraud, and forgery under Articles 435, Part 2, Clause 3 (2  counts), 435, Part 1 (2 counts), 255, Part 2, Clause 2 (2 counts),  and 445, Part 1 (2 counts) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of  Armenia. He has confessed and fully admitted to the charges. House  arrest and bail in the amount of 1,000,000 drams have been imposed as  a preventive measure against him.

The sums transferred as a benefit to the beneficiaries as a result of  the bribe were fully reimbursed by them.  The criminal prosecution  against the individuals who gave the bribe was terminated due to  their active repentance. The preliminary investigation of the  criminal case has been completed, and the materials of the criminal  case, along with the indictment, have been sent to the  Anti-Corruption Court of the Republic of Armenia.