ArmInfo. In the Special Investigation Service, another criminal case has been opened on the fact of exceeding official powers, which entailed serious consequences by negligence.
According to the press service of the SIS, information was received that in 2007-2012, an official who held the post of senior assistant to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, and then – first deputy head of the Office of the President of the Republic of Armenia, overstepped his authority, as a result of which "Old Erivan Holding" LLC was damaged in the amount of 2 billion drams. It should be noted that during the indicated period, the son-in-law of former President of the RA Serzh Sargsyan – Mikael Minasyan, occupied the position.
According to the SIS, data were received that on November 16, 2007, a company owned by Manvel Ter- Arakelyan was given permission to rebuild within two years "Odeon" cafe located near Tumanyan street with an area of 564 square meters for further operation. The company planned to begin the reconstruction of the cafe in 2008, but in 2007-2012 the aforementioned high ranking official exceeded his authority and demanded that Manvel Ter-Arakelyan not restore or operate the cafe, depriving the company of legal rights to use the rented area for its intended purpose. As a result, the company virtually ceased operations, and in 2007-2014 suffered losses in the amount of 1 938 798 136 drams. A criminal case has been instituted in the Special Investigation Service in connection with the excess of official authority, which entailed negligent grave consequences, in part 3 of Article 309 of the RA Criminal Code.
To recall, the son-in-law of former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, Mikael Minasyan, was prosecuted as a defendant in a criminal case on illicit enrichment, money laundering and the inclusion of false data in the income statement. There is no exact information regarding his current location; Minasyan himself previously via Facebook reported the initiation of more than 10 criminal cases against people related to him and his family. Last fall, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on Minasyan to return to his homeland and answer questions from the Special Investigation Service. In particular, it was about illegal, as the prime minister noted, privatization of a strategic facility in the Lori region. According to media reports, this facility is the Dzoraget hydroelectric power station (<Dzora hydroelectric station>). In the criminal case regarding the "Dzora HPP", the former head of the RA Ministry of Defense Seyran Ohanyan is also accused, who is suspected of embezzlement in the amount of 1,046,400,000 drams. Earlier on her Facebook page, Prime Minister's press secretary Mane Gevorgyan stated that Minasyan had illegal shares in Spayka, Shant and Armenia TV companies, Yerevan Mall shopping center, Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Plant, and a number of other companies. According to her, a large part of his share was hastily sold after the "velvet revolution", and, for example, the former director of the National Security Council, Arthur Vanetsyan, acquired a stake in ZCMC, with a clear abuse of power and through dummy shareholders. Gevorgyan also indicated that Vanetsyan's father owns a company that has become a major cargo carrier of ZCMC. According to her, the Government also has information that Minasyan has a share of corruption in UCOM, and he is the de jure owner of part of the shares of the family of the former head of the SRC Gagik Khachatryan.