Tuesday, July 24 2018 17:13

ArmInfo.Former security chief of the third president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, Vachagan Ghazaryan introduced a pledge established by the Court of Appeal to change the preventive punishment in the amount of 1 billion drams, and has  already been released.

Ghazaryan's lawyer was at a loss to indicate exactly where the former  official had taken such a sum to deposit a pledge. "I can only say  that it is not necessary for this amount to belong to Kazarian  himself," the lawyer said.

Ghazaryan was detained at the end of June on charges of illegal  enrichment, as well as in the presentation of false information in  the declaration on property and concealment of data to be declared.  He was charged with illegal enrichment, as well as concealment of  information about the real amount of money in the declaration  submitted to the ethics commission of high-ranking officials (314 and  310 articlesfull of the Criminal Code - forgery and illegal participation  in entrepreneurial activities). On June 28, he was arrested for a  period of two months and, disagreeing with the court's decision,  appealed him to the appellate instance.

During the searches in Ghazaryan's apartment on Teryan Street it was  found 35 million drams, $ 1,110,400, 230,500 euros, and in the garage  of the latter, $ 2,000 was found during the search. It was  established that on June 25 Kazaryan's account in "Ardshinbank" was $  50,000 has been cashed, and $ 120,000 and 436 million drams have been  cashed from the account of the latter in Unibank. Ghazaryan was taken  to the SNB, and with him uncovered amounts were found. In total,  Ghazaryan found 460 million drams, $ 1,272,900, and 218,000 euros.