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 Thursday, July 19 2018 12:52
Naira Badalian

Head of NSS: Taron Margaryan will be called for questioning in the  nearest future 

Head of NSS: Taron Margaryan will be called for questioning in the  nearest future 

ArmInfo.Inspections in the "Yerevan" Foundation will end soon and the results will be announced,  Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan  told journalists on July 19.

According to him, the inspections of the Foundation's activities took  longer as huge volume of documents was checked.

As of today, as he stated, the ex-mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan  was not summoned for questioning to the Investigation Department of  the National Security Service. He will be invited in the near future,  Vanetsyan noted.

There will be no problems with Margaryan's attendance. As Artur  Vanetsyan stated, he will not manage to leave the country before the  questioning.

As for the fact that ex-military inspector Mikael Harutyunyan and  Serzh Sargsyan's nephew Narek Sargsyan after presenting them the  accusations turned out to be beyond the reach of Armenian law  enforcers, Vanetsyan stated,  that there is no omission by the law  enforcers. "Anyone who does not have the status of an accused in the  criminal case has the right for free movement," he said.

Earlier on June 18, Vanetsyan told journalists that the next video  material published by the National Security Service of Armenia will  relate to activities of the "Yerevan" Foundation, whose head of board  of trustees is Taron Margaryan. As a result of the inspections, the  director of the Foundation Ashot Ghazaryan and Deputy Head of the  Yerevan Davidashen district Khachatur Kirakosyan were detained on  June 14. As the press center of the National Security Service  informed, an alarm was received from the citizens V.G.  and A.Kh.   that officials of the municipality for granting permission to build  and formalize property rights, in addition to the payments   established by law, required to transfer large amounts of money to   the accounts of the "Yerevan" Foundation.    During the preparation  of the materials it was found out that, part of the received cash was  not paid to the foundation's account, but was appropriated.  On the  basis of reports of the crime, a criminal case was instituted in  accordance with Part 2 of Article 308 (abuse of official powers,  which resulted in grave consequences by negligence) and Article 178,  part 1 (fraud committed through the use of official position). Within  the framework of the criminal case, a search was conducted in the  office of the Yerevan Foundation, located in the building of the  mayor's office. Large- scale operative- search and investigative  measures are being conducted to establish the circumstances of luring  money from citizens, spending funds, the purpose, as well as  establishing the legality of actions. However the court of first  instance made a decision to release Karapetyan and Khazaryan.  According to Vanetsyan the court had enough evidences to take the  director of the well- known Yerevan Foundation under arrest. However,  the court made another decision and NSS has no right to interfere  into the work of juridical bodies. "We do not interfere into work of  juridical bodies this relates to arrests as well", he stated.  However, according to Vanetsyan this does not mean that the  activities held in the Yerevan Foundation and the violation revealed  will be forgotten. "We continue our work and a lot of details soon  will be presented soon", Vanetsyan said. 

Besides, a video-investigation was published, which showed all the  numerous property of     the mayor, in particular, several apartments  in  various buildings, a house with a plot of land, a cottage, a  garage, a  public building,   etc.  Later the assistant to the Prime  Minister Aren Mkrtchyan made a   statement that all the information,  published in the   video was transferred to   the National Security  Service. On his page in Facebook Mkrtchyan in   particular wrote that  the  transferred materials will be attached to   the case of the  financial fraud of the Yerevan Foundation, whose    head of the Board  of Trustees  is Margaryan. 

He also stated that he    was ready to take part in the   investigation of the case as a   witness. 

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