The employees of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia, as a result of the large-scale operative-investigative measures and investigative activities, discovered cases of receiving and giving bribes in particularly large amounts.

According to the obtained preliminary data, it was found that a former high-ranking officer of one of the military commissariats and the officer’s assistant, knowing the nuances of the military commissariat’s work and using their connections among doctors, in 2019. during the summer conscription, in exchange for 2000-15 000 US dollars, they organized the processes of obtaining false medical diagnoses for 9 conscripts and 4 conscripts and, based on them, exempting them from mandatory military service or granting deferments.

In addition, it was also revealed that a person cooperating with a former high-ranking officer dealt with the issues of early discharge of two people in mandatory military service on the basis of fictitious health problems. One of the doctors of the garrison hospital assisted him in that matter.

Criminal cases have been initiated in the investigative department of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia on the basis of the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia.

Due to the combination of sufficient evidence obtained, 3 persons were charged. A former high-ranking officer and his aide have been detained.

RA National Security Service urges citizens to refrain from illegal actions to avoid military service.

An investigation is underway.