2018 June 21

Anti-Corruption Daily

Anti-corruption 06/21/2018: 0) SHMAYS IS BEING RAIDED! 1) Army officers stole car parts designated for army vehicles 2) More officers arrested for stealing fuel from army 3) Edu ministry investigates a school for unauthorized practices... 10) Taxi companies charged with fraud for... (MORE BELOW)
by ar_david_hh

Disclaimer: All the accused are innocent until proven guilty by the court of law, even if they may sound as being guilty. Currency in Armenian Drams ֏ unless specified otherwise.

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Arakel Movsisyan (Shmays) is being raided

. Five weapons found in his mansion. He is placed under custody. More details will emerge later.

Elipsis and one other speeding camera company embezzled over 1 billion drams, partially by over-billing the police department for unprovided services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZnrNv3_c-U

Chexov school under investigation by the Education Ministry for unauthorized programs and endangering children's health https://youtu.be/z5MK9PEXjNY?t=110

Avshar school under investigation for 10 million embezzlement for hiring non-existent employees and stealing the salaries. A similar fraud was uncovered in one of Yerevan hospitals last week.

13 criminal cases against various pre-school and school administrators for embezzlement. Stealing funds from the public and the parents.

Fertilizer company avoided 96 million in taxes. 44 million recovered.

Another incident with army officers arrested for stealing fuel from the army and selling it to nearby gas stations.

Other officers arrested for purposely labeled working car parts as broken so they could dump then steal them. The parts were meant for fixing vehicles in the army.

Multiple taxi companies and individuals charged with fraud for not paying 606 mln Dram in penalties. They fabricated documents to claim they have no income or property to avoid the fines.

Yans restaurant's secretary stole millions from the company. Officers are being raided. Weapons and $1 million recovered. It's expected that some of the stolen funds were under-reported, thus proper taxation did not accrue.

ilham aliyev's $3 billion bribe scheme uncovered. Fake British offshore companies were used to take the money out of the Azeri International Bank and use it for buying opinions favorable to Aliyev's regime. The bank had to file for bankruptcy on 2017 : https://youtu.be/rFqAoWp7CRw?t=468

Yerkrapah Inc. wants to terminave Manvel Grigoryan's chairmanship.

Manvel's lawyer petitions the court to let Manvel free under the guarantee of not leaving the country. Claims he has a sickness that requires chemotherapy.

Other news: PM Pashinhyan does not accept Mane Tandilyan's resignation. She agrees to stay and work around the Social Security program.

Backstory: Armenia is creating something similar to US Social Security more accurate analogy here.

2.5% of salary will be held by the employer and handed over to Social Security. Money equal to 7.5% of salary will be added by the government. The sum will be used for investments in Armenia and outside foreign markets, done by world famous companies. The money+interest will be used years later to pay for the worker's pension. Mane Tandilyan was against requiring all workers to become a member of this program. She'll now work to improve the proposal.

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Link to original report and comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/8svdb4/anticorruption_06212018_0_shmays_is_being_raided/