The National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia, consistently carrying out the functions vested upon it by the law aimed at countering corruption, as a result of the undertaken operational and search measures detected a case of demanding and receiving a bribe in particularly large amount by high-ranking officials between 2007 and 2009.

In particular, it has been established that, in connection with the criminal case initiated on the fact of kidnapping a female resident of Yerevan, in order to carry out actions within their powers and to subject the group of persons, who had committed the alleged grievous criminal acts, to criminal liability in the manner prescribed by the law, between 2007-2009 the officials demanded from the victim’s father and periodically received, in parts, a bribe in particularly large amount through another high-ranking official who had taken the role of a mediator; however subsequently the persons who had committed the alleged crime were still not subjected to criminal liability and, as a result of numerous demands of the victim’s father and the latter’s relative, the person – mediator of a bribery- returned a part of the money that had been demanded as a bribe, while refusing to return the rest of the money justifying that the bribe had been transferred to the recipients and they had taken all the possible measures for the positive solution of the case. 

According to the corresponding article of the Criminal Code of RA, a criminal case was initiated in the Investigation Department of RA NSS in connection with the case of receiving a bribe in particularly large amounts by high-ranking officials; the case was sent to the General Prosecutor’s Office of RA to solve the issue of case-related investigative subordination.