Theft of around 300 thousand dollars. Why was Ara Vardanyan arrested? NSS

The RA National Security Service, being committed to the principle of being as open and transparent as possible to the public, considers it necessary to inform that in the investigation department of the RA National Security Service on July 2, 2018, as a result of the criminal case initiated under Article 214, Part 1 of the RA Criminal Code, with the combination of numerous investigative operations and sufficient evidence obtained as a result of operational-investigative measures, on 08.10.2019 Ara Vardani Vardanyan, the former executive director of Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, was charged under Article 214, Part 1 of the RA Criminal Code, amended and charged again under Article 214, Part 1, Article 179, Part 3, Clause 1, and Article 325, Part 2 of the RA Criminal Code.

According to the press service of the NSS, according to factual data, he, after reaching a preliminary agreement with the director of the SP company, which is 100 percent owned by the foundation, signed a contract on October 26, 2017 to supply AMD 149,474,540.00 worth of property to the education departments of the Askeran, Shahumyan, Martakert, Hadrut, Kashatagh and Martun regions of the Artsakh Republic. about, but the property in question was not delivered, and in order to appropriate the mentioned amount written off from the fund for that purpose, official false documents were drawn up – acts of handover and acceptance of materialistic values.

On October 9, 2019, the Court of General Jurisdiction of the city of Yerevan, satisfying the petition of the body implementing the proceedings, changed the bail previously chosen as an alternative preventive measure against the accused and chose detention as a preventive measure.

The National Security Service urges you to use an official source when publishing material on its activities to verify the credibility of the information received.

Earlier, we reported that by the decision of the court of general jurisdiction of the city of Yerevan, the former director of the Hayastan Hamarmeni fund Ara Vardanyan bail was canceled as a preventive measure against him and detention was applied to him as a preventive measure.