Case on Armenian Police office abuse by employees referred to prosecutor
ArmInfo.After the preliminary investigation of the Investigative Committee of Armenia on charges of abuse of power by the police, based on the acquired during the investigation, enough evidence was found that in the Arabkir Department of Yerevan Police Chief of Criminal Investigation Department of the RA Police and a senior associate in the same department exceeded their official powers, are not properly writing and applying measures to investigate four cases of theft on a large scale amounting 6 million AMD committed in 2015-2016.
As a result of the unlawful actions of these officials, Hamlet Karapetyan's rights and the legitimate interests of the state were damaged. Thus, during the investigation it was established that in the fall of 2015 citizen G. Karapetyan informed the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the RA Police in Yerevan, Igor Mesropyan, about the illegal penetration of an unknown person into his mansion and about stealing various goods in especially large amounts for the amount of 5.320. 000 AMD. However, Mesropyan did not draw up a report on this case in order not to replenish the number of serious crimes investigated by his department.
After about a month Karapetyan again appealed to Mesropyan and reported another stealing from his mansion for the amount of approximately 360.000 AMD. However, the police chief again did not receive a written report from the citizen and took no action to investigate the second case.
In addition, 2 more thefts in the amount of 290.000 AMD were committed from the house of G. Karapetyan in 2016. The citizen Karapetyan again informed Muradyan about this, however, he again did not take measures to identify and investigate the case. But to mislead Karapetyan, to cover up his illegal actions and to create an illusion that the case is in production, he instructed his employee to the senior police investigator Armen Harutyunyan without registering the theft report to make a formal visit to the crime scene. Meanwhile, A. Harutyunyan also exceeded his official powers and did not receive a written report from G. Harutyunyan, did not take any actions to disclose the crime.
Thus, for the commission of the above-mentioned criminal acts, Igor Mesropyan and Armen Harutyunyan were charged under part 1 of article 308 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia. The case with the indictment was transferred to the prosecutor.