ArmInfo. Employees of the National Security Service of Armenia revealed another case of large-scale bribery by employees of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) with forgery of official documents.
So, according to the report of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia, thanks to the large- scale operational and investigative measures, factual data were obtained that the competent officials of the customs service of the State Revenue Office of the Republic of Armenia, contrary to the law adopted on March 1, 2018 "On the prohibition of the import of vehicles with right-hand drive placement" , which entered into force on April 1, 2018, and prohibited importing right-hand drive vehicles into the country, using their official position out of selfish motives and to the detriment of official obligations, without the presence of the circumstances provided for by law, allowed to import right-hand drive cars and in 2020 carried out their customs clearance. The department also stressed that moreover, the above customs officers filled out documents for customs clearance, which included deliberately false information about the location of the steering wheel, and instead of the right one, the left one was indicated, as a result of which not only damage was done to the state, but also citizens' rights were violated. "We also received factual data that the competent officials of the RA Police Registration and Examination Departments, being authorized in the manner prescribed by the RA Government Decree N-1251 of September 9, 2010, to register vehicles through a single system - inspection station - place of payment - service hall - printing and document provision hall, being obliged to inspect vehicles and compare their real data with documentary ones, in 2019-2020 for registering deliberately false facts about left-hand steering of cars and the ability to further freely dispose, own or use them on the territory of the RA, received bribes on a large scale.
The case was transferred to the Investigation Department of the RA NSS. Criminal procedural and operational-search measures are being taken to find out all the persons involved in the criminal scheme and bring them to justice, "the department informed.