ArmInfo.Former head of the State Revenue Committee, Gagik Khachatryan's another son, Artem Khachatryan, has been put on the wanted list in a criminal case being investigated by the National Security Service.
Artem Khachatryan was charged as an accused for appropriation on an especially large scale, receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, for laundering money on an especially large scale and facilitating the abuse of power (clause 38 (1) 1 of the article 38-179, clause 3 of the article 190 (two episode), part 2 of article 38-308 and article 38-311). By a court decision, a preventive measure in the form of arrest was chosen in his regard, he was put on the wanted list.
To note, Gagik Khachatryan's other son - Gurgen Khachatryan, who is the co-founder of the Galaxy group of companies and the chairman of the board of directors of the Ucom major telecommunications company, is accused of aiding in transferring a bribe and for acts of corruption. He is wanted and arrested in absentia. Earlier, it was reported that numerous searches were conducted by the National Security Service in the offices and apartments of the Khachatryan family, as well as in the office of the newly appointed director of Ucom, Ara Khachatryan.
To note the final beneficiary of Ucom is the family of the former super-minister - Minister of Finance and SRC Gagik Khachatryan. Today, Gagik Khachatryan as well as his sons and nephew (the owners of Galaxy) are accused of embezzlement on a particularly large scale and abuse of office. Gagik Khachatryan has been charged under part 2 of article 308 of the RA Criminal Code (misappropriation or embezzlement of funds on an especially large scale) and part 2 of article 308 of the RA Criminal Code (abuse of official authority entailing grave consequences through negligence).
Khachatryan, being a government official all his life, became one of the richest people in the country. Ucom enjoyed enormous informal privileges before the Velvet Revolution and, for all its years, despite operating profit, worked with huge balance sheet losses and, as a result, did not pay income taxes.