557.6 million drams of non-target material resources were acquired by the Ministry of Defense. prosecutor’s office

In the State Interests Protection Department of the RA Military Central Prosecutor’s Office, compliance of the purchase of material resources for the needs of the RA Ministry of Defense in previous years with the requirements of the legislation is studied, including from the point of view of the necessity and applicability of the resources acquired. This was informed by the Public Relations Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of RA.

“As a result of the studies, it was found that the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, based on the reports of the relevant officials of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, that the acquired material resources are very necessary for the needs of the army, in 2010 with 2 contracts signed on December 16, purchased material means of military medical significance with a total value of AMD 557.587.600. Meanwhile, as a result of studies carried out for the protection of state interests, it was found and substantiated that these acquired material means are primarily of high value, are not intended for RA climatic conditions, have no military-medical significance and therefore cannot be used in the RA Armed Forces, because their use requires a large number of human and technical resources.

This is also evidenced by the fact that according to the results of the study, after being acquired, the mentioned products never served their intended purpose, suffered certain damages over the years, and after 8 years, a decision was made to re-evaluate and disassemble them. As a result of this, as accumulated depreciation, the initial value of the common property was reduced by AMD 103,075,700, and individual components included in the composition of the common property were distributed to different units of the RA Armed Forces.

Based on the above, the need to purchase similar material resources for the needs of the RA Defense Ministry, the effectiveness and justification of the use of state financial resources, as a result of which the state suffered a loss of 557,587,600 AMD.

Bearing in mind that the factual circumstances described above may apparently contain data indicating abuse of official position, abuse of power or abuse of official authority, as well as waste of state funds by officials with official powers of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia due to selfish or other personal interest or group interest, the study documents were sent to the Main Military Investigation Department of the RA KP to find out the scope of the guilty persons, the latter the further process of preparing materials for the legal evaluation of the acts to solve.