Within the framework of the criminal case investigated in the Special Investigative Service, operational intelligence activities were conducted by the National Security Service as a result of which on 25 June Major General Vachagan Ghazaryan, reserve officer of the National Security Service, was detained at the entrance of Unibank, 12 Charents Street, Yerevan and subjected to detention to the administrative building of NSS on suspicion of committing a crime (illegal enrichment) under Article 310.1 of RA Criminal Code.
According to Vachagan Ghazaryan, the purpose of drawing cash was to return the money to the real owner, and Ghazaryan was reluctant to say who the real owner of the money was.
During the personal search Vachagan Ghazaryan presented 500 USD and 213,000 AMD, which he had in his pocket for daily expenses, and there was 50,000 USD in the Lexus car which accompanied him to the bank.
The National Security Service possesses operational data according to which, if Ghazaryan had not been detained, he was going to draw 860 million AMD from his account and 690 million AMD from his wife Ruzanna Beglaryan’s personal account in “Ardshinbank” CJSC, in total 1.5 billion AMD.
Ghazaryan, who is accused of illegal enrichment, was going to pay 17 million AMD of service fee to “Ardshinbank” CJSC to draw the aforementioned amount of cash.
During the search Vachagan Ghazaryan said he had forgotten to state the amount on his accounts in Unibank and Ardshinbank in his declaration to the Committee of Ethics of High Ranking Officials.
Vachagan Ghazaryan has been arrested.
Note: Every person suspected in or charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent unless proved guilty in the manner prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code of RA and unless the verdict comes into legal force.