On March-April, 2023, A.T., a Senior Specialist of Territorial Department of Ararat Conscription Division of Conscription and Mobilization Service of the Ministry of Defense (MoD), demanded and received a large amount of bribe.  

In particular, the criminal proceedings revealed that in March 2023, H.M., the father of the conscript S.M., got aquanted with a R.A., the close friend of A.T., the Senior Specialist of Territorial Department of  Ararat Conscription Division of Conscription and Mobilization Service of MoD and asked him to organize the process of exempting his son from compulsory military service. The citizen R.A., agreed with his close friend A.T., to exempt S.M. from compulsory military service in exchange for 10,000 USD. (A.T. promised to give 2 thousand USD to R.A. for supporting him). On March 30, 2023, R.A. took a part of the bribe, 2,500 USD, and transferred 1,000 USD to A.T. After the conscript passed the medical examinations, R.A. received the remaining 7 thousand 500 USD and transferred 7 thousand 400 USD to the Senior Specialist of the Conscription Division.

At another count, A.T., the Senior Specialist, received a bribe of 120 thousand AMD from two residents of Ararat region through his close friend R.A., in order to exempt them from the regular drills in 2023.

In addition, on April 17, 2023, A.T., the Senior Specialist of the Conscription Division, called H.M., a resident of Ararat region, to inform him that the Territorial Department would send him a notification to appear at the drills and offered to organize a reception for five employees of the Ararat Region Territorial Department in the restaurant complex belonging to H.M. as a bribe for not sending the notification. H.M. accepted the offer and organized a reception for five people, paying 15 thousand AMD for each.

Taking into account that A.T's actions contain features of a crime, on September 4, 2023, the Supervising Prosecutor initiated a public criminal prosecution against A.T., pursuant to Article 435, Part 2 of the Criminal Code (receiving a bribe in large amounts), Article 435, Part 2, Clause 1 (receiving a bribe by a group of officials) (2 counts) and Article 435, Part 1 (receiving a bribe by an official personally or through an intermediary for demanding, offering to pay a bribe or accepting an offer or promising to pay a bribe for himself or another person, including money, shares, other payment tool, right to property, service or any other advantage).

Notice:  A person charged with any crime shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty in the manner prescribed by the RA Criminal Procedure Code—by the judgment came into legal force.