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A.H., a CESA employee, the driver of H.T., Former Minister of Justice of the RA, partially recovered the damage caused to the state: no criminal case was initiated against H.T. on non-rehabilitating grounds

06/04/2023

A.H. was found guilty by the verdict of 27 March 2023 of having assisted M.P., the former head of the CESA of the Ministry of Justice of the RA, from April 22 of 2011 to April 22 of 2015, in taking  someone else's huge amount of property (5 million 712 thousand 550 AMD) through using his official post and overspending. A.H. recovered a part of the caused damage (2 million 985 thousand AMD), during the preliminary investigation.

 

The criminal case was sent to the Court with a bill of indictment in 20 December 2020. By the Court’s verdict of 27 March 2023, A.H. was charged under the Articles 38-179, Part 3, Point 1 of the Criminal Code (aiding and abetting theft in a particularly large amount committed by embezzlement) and was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment. A.H. was released from serving his punishment under the Article 2, Part 1, Point 1 of the RA Law “On declaring amnesty in criminal cases on the occasion of the 2800th anniversary of the founding of Erebuni-Yerevan and the 100th anniversary of the independence of the First Republic of Armenia”, dated 1 November 2018. The prosecutor's claim to recover the uncompensated part of the damage for 2 million 727 thousand 550 AMD was also granted by the same verdict.

 

Confidentiality was ensured during the criminal proceedings, taking into account the Article 9, Part 7 of the RA Constitutional Law "On the Constitutional Court" regarding the demand for respect for the authority and independence of the judge and judicial power. Thus, public was not aware that the mentioned criminal case also concerns to H.T., former Minister of Justice, currently a judge of the RA Constitutional Court. However, given the fact that a final decision on failure to perform criminal prosecution on non-rehabilitating grounds was already adopted against the judge of the Constitutional Court under the mentioned proceedings (criminal prosecution was not conducted on the ground of expiry of the statute of limitations against him, the legality whereof was also confirmed by the First Instance Court and the Court of Appeals), we inform that it was confirmed by the above mentioned decision that H.T. being Minister of Justice of the RA and being aware of the fact that A.H. was appointed on the position of Chief Enforcement Officer at the RA CESA by M.P., however performing the duties of his driver, and based on his personal interest to pay A.H. a higher salary, to award a title, and to not deprive him of the opportunity to gain work experience, the latter failed to take measures to prevent A.H. from not fulfilling his obligations stemming from his position. Moreover, in 13 July 2013 H.T. signed the Decision N. 158-A providing his actual driver A.H., the first-class consultant of the Information Technology Implementation and System Automation Division of the CESA of the Ministry of Justice of the RA, the first-class specialist of the same department with a service weapon.