About 1.4 billion drams of damage was caused to the state due to the employees of DAH

After reviewing the report on the results of the control carried out by the RA Control Chamber in the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs, the attached additional materials justifying the violations, the documents have revealed the next manifestations of the schematic crime of avoiding the payment of administrative fines for violations of the traffic rules.

As a result of a deep and comprehensive study carried out by the RA General Prosecutor’s Office, it was found that in 2016-2017 during the period, a number of owners of cars, which are the subject of CRC violations, including taxi service companies, paid administrative fines in order to avoid them, presented evidence that the violations were committed by individuals without property or income. As a result, the employees of the Traffic Police Service recorded fines in the total amount of 764,853,550 AMD for 97,429 administrative offenses in the name of 478 individuals who have no property or income. And the employees of the enforcement service of judicial acts of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, not taking sufficient measures to find the property or funds of the debtors, ended the enforcement proceedings regarding the confiscation of money by administrative acts on the basis that the debtor has no property or income.

In the described actions, there are apparent data that the owners of cars fraudulently avoided paying the amounts of administrative fines, causing large losses to the state. And the responsible officials of the state service, for almost 2 years, by formulating many administrative offenses and enforcement proceedings against 478 individuals, have shown dishonest or negligent attitude towards the service. And as a result of not performing their duties or performing them improperly, the state suffered particularly large losses.

Bearing in mind that these actions apparently have the characteristics of crimes, a criminal case was initiated according to the facts specified by the decision of the RA General Prosecutor’s Office under Article 184, Part 2, Clause 1 and Article 315, Part 2 of the RA Criminal Code (causing particularly large amounts of damage by means of fraud or abuse of trust, official negligence that caused serious consequences). The investigation was assigned to the Special Investigation Service of the RA.

As a result of studies that have been going on for several months, including the above, 7 criminal cases have been initiated in the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Armenia with the facts of the use of criminal mechanisms to make it impossible to ensure the payment of administrative fines for the violation of the CRC rules. The amount of damage caused to the state by them has already amounted to around 1,380,000,000 drams.

Studies aimed at uncovering the facts of violations of state interests are ongoing.

By the decision of the preliminary investigation body, the criminal cases initiated until this moment are combined and examined in one proceeding. During the preliminary investigation, appropriate measures of prosecutorial intervention are used in order to ensure the completeness and versatility of the examination of these criminal cases, to find out the full scope of criminal manifestations, the full scope of the persons involved in them, including competent public servants, and to give the necessary legal assessment of their actions.

Taking into account the volume of criminal cases, the large number of subjects involved in them, the need to carry out large-scale operative-investigative, investigative and other judicial actions in accordance with the investigative plan, the Prosecutor General of RA Arthur Davtyan was instructed to create an investigative group with the involvement of investigators of the RA Investigative Committee.