7 ARMENTEL EMPLOYEES CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT OF
104 MLN DRAMS
20-06-2006 22:00:00 | Armenia | Social
YEREVAN, JUNE 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The court of first
instance of Yerevan's Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun
communities (chaired by Judge Vardan Abrahamian) will
soon start examining a criminal case against 7
employees of ArmenTel company, NT correspondent was
informed from the court's office. V. Abrahamian is on
vacation, so the day of court examination will be
announced next week. The RA Prosecutor General's
Office has transferred the case to the court on May
25.
According to the information on the website of
the Prosecutor General's Office, the criminal case was
opened based on the fact of embezzlements committed by
ArmenTel employees in 2002-2005. A damage of 104 mln
drams, including damage of 53 mln drams to the RA
state budget, was done as a result of embezzlement and
abuse of power. During the investigation, the accused
persons recovered the damage to the state, as well as
damage of 7 mln drams (about 15.6 thousand USD) to
ArmenTel.
The following persons are defendants in this
criminal case: acting head of the Planning, Marketing
and Tariff Unit of ArmenTEl's Local Communication
Service Department Rafik Ghazarian, senior accountant
of the Goris Telecommunication Region of the company's
southern territory Gagik Sargsian, senior accountant
of the the Tumanian Telecommunication Region of
ArmenTel's northern territory Aramayis Tatoyan,
engineer of the Subscriber Service Department of
ArmenTel Spitak Office Samvel Pilosian, the same
office's senior account Elza Dallakian and manager
Lena Hovhannisian, employee of the Spitak region's
technical workshop Hmayak Hakobian. Arrest as a
measure of restraint was chosen only with respect to
R.Ghazarian, while the remaining 6 persons gave a
written undertaking not to leave the place.