Verelq: It’s Gagik Khachatryan’s turn. How did the Dilijan shoulder center’s money go to dust?

On July 16, 2018, the 1st Department of the Investigation Department of the RA SRC received the results of the study of the construction process of the Dilijan Training Center of the RA Ministry of Finance, carried out in the State Interest Protection Department of the RA Prosecutor General’s Office, regarding the abuses and embezzlements committed during the process.

As reported by the press service of the SRC, during the preparation of the materials, factual data was obtained that the competent officials of the RA Ministry of Finance and the State Revenue Committee of the RA RA, using their official positions against the interests of the service, based on selfish, other personal interests and group interests, violating the requirements of the current legislation, without carrying out the process defined by law for the purchase, to conclude a contract, set a preliminary price, prepare a volume sheet-estimate and submit justifications through “Sahakyanshin” CJSC engaged in construction activities without organized and carried out the construction works of the Dilijan educational center in the form of documentation, for which neither copyright nor technical quality control was actually carried out.

Instead, during the years 2013-2015, under the condition that the construction works were actually completed, and in some cases a part of them had been completed, 6 purchase contracts were signed with the “Sahakyanshin” CJSC company for the partial implementation of the reconstruction works, with a total value of 2 billion 356 million 455 thousand AMD, after which only days after that, handover-acceptance protocols and execution acts certifying the fact of the construction works were drawn up. in conditions where it is practically impossible to start and finish construction works of this type and volume within one or more days.

During the preparation of the materials, factual data was also obtained regarding the apparent existence of a number of other criminal acts.

On July 24, 2018, a criminal case was initiated in the investigation department of the SRC under Article 308, Part 1, Article 314, Part 1, Article 179, Part 2, Clauses 1 and 3 of the RA Criminal Code.

The official message does not mention the names of the officials involved in the case. But it is known that the construction of the Dilijan educational center was carried out on the initiative of Gagik Khachatryan, the chairman of the SRC and Minister of Finance.

To remind, on December 23, 2008, the government, led by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, made a decision to create a state non-commercial organization “Educational Center” within the SRC.

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In 2010, by the decision of the government, the “Dilijan creative house” of the Union of Cinematographers with an adjacent 3.5 ha plot was provided to SNOC for 505 million drams, and in 2011 by another decision of the RA government on December 29, another 22,505 ha of land from the territory of the Dilijan National Park was added to that area.

In 2012, 1 billion drams were allocated to SRC from the reserve fund of the RA government for the implementation of the design works of the Dilijan educational center. A year later, in 2013, the SRC decided to make changes to the 1 billion dram project and signed a new contract with “ZAART” architectural studio for the changes, paying the latter 44.9 million drams.

The actual construction of the center started already in 2011. For the first stage, the SRC paid 334,307,822 drams to “Spitak Tnak” LLC, and the technical supervision of the completed construction was entrusted to “Husali Kamar” LLC for 3.3 million drams.

In 2012, SRC ordered construction works to 4 construction organizations, paying them a total of 1.3 billion drams.

The biggest amount went to “Sahakyanshin” LLC: 1 billion 136 million drams, “Husali Kamar” received 21 million drams, “White House” received 84.2 million drams. In 2012, another 84 million drams were also paid to “ZAART” architectural studio for artistic and constructive solutions of some buildings of the center.

The PEC of 2014 decides to further expand the area of ​​the educational center by purchasing the plot of land located at 5/1 of Simple Lake St. in Dilijan for 32.5 million drams. In the same year, “Sahakyanshin” LLC received 626.7 million drams from the state budget, “Husali Kamar” received 40 million drams, and “ZAART” architectural studio received 22 million drams for construction works.

In 2015, “Sahakyanshin” LLC received 4.9 billion drams, “Husali Kamar” – 5.5 million, and “ZAART” architectural studio – 4.5 billion drams. And since the construction of the expensive center was already nearing completion, in 2015 curtains, furniture, televisions worth millions of drams were purchased from various companies with state funds for the already constructed buildings.

In 2016, the interior finishing works continued. Already this year, “Sahakyanshin” LLC received 1.8 billion drams, “ZAART” architectural studio – 9.5 million, “Husali Kamar” – 9.4 million drams.

Thus, according to the calculations of the purchases made by one person and the published decisions of the government, about 26 billion drams have been spent from the state budget on the training center of Dilijan, owned by the SRC, from the day of its creation until now.