06 september 2021

Case of Official Negligence of Officials Combined with Grave Consequences Detected

Case of Official Negligence of Officials Combined with Grave Consequences Detected

As a result of the operative-search activities carried out by the employees of the Department of Economic Security and Countering Corruption of the RA NSS, factual data were obtained that the competent officials of the state department, being obliged by duty to maintain an electronic database formed with the aim of making available the state-guaranteed free and preferential package of services on medical care and services for primary health care, and enter into it data on the dismissal from work of staff members who are beneficiaries of the package, due to dishonest and negligent attitude to the service, performed their duties improperly, as a result of which, for the period from 1 October, 2017 to 1 September, 2021, 352 beneficiaries of the package after their dismissal and after the set 6 months continued to remain in the list of beneficiaries, and for them from the RA state budget to insurance companies were unreasonably transferred insurance sum in especially large scale- around 12.500.000 AMD in total, which negligently caused grave material consequences.

Based on the materials prepared on this fact by the Investigation Department of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia, a criminal case was initiated on the event of official negligence, which negligently entailed grave consequences, which was transferred to the investigative jurisdiction for the purpose of conducting a preliminary investigation.

Note: The suspect or accused of an alleged crime is considered innocent as long as his/her guilt is not proven in a manner prescribed by the Code of Criminal Procedure of RA - by the court decision entered into legal force.