On 24 December, 2024, the prosecutor approved the indictment regarding the establishment of a criminal organization, causing particularly large damage to the state and committing money laundering. The prosecutor submitted the case to the competent court along with the materials of the proceedings.

The criminal proceedings examined by the Investigative Committee revealed that H.T., having reached a preliminary agreement with foreign citizens I. G., E. M., as well as a group of other persons, committed computer theft, money laundering, as well as organized crimes related to false entrepreneurship for a long time.

In particular, from September 2022 to December 8, 2023, H. T. recruited and involved dozens of members, including minors, in the criminal organization, who contacted foreign citizens via phone calls, offered to invest in financial platforms not existing, directed them to transfer financial means to the accounts managed by them.

In the result of the above-mentioned actions, about AMD 810 million was stolen from more than 1,400 individuals.

In order to hide the source of origin of the criminally acquired financial resources and to give them a legal appearance, tax invoices were written out, showing cash receipts received as a result of the alleged activities and servicing current expenses. In addition, being obliged to calculate and pay income tax and social contributions in the prescribed amount, from May 2022 to December 2023 the above-mentioned individuals made most of the payments in cash, causing damage of AMD 127 million 118 thousand to the state.

1. T. also instructed to draw up and submit to the competent authorities false contracts and reports on the provision of services by LLC companies and the receipt of funds from abroad, in order to give legal appearance (by laundering) to AMD 533 million 241 thousand transferred to the company.

On January 16, 2024, after H.T. was arrested, a large amount of "Methamphetamine" was found in the course of the personal search of the latter.

On January 11, 2024, the prosecutor initiated public criminal prosecution against H. T. and his accomplices under Article 318, Part 2, Point 2 (Establishment or management of a criminal organization by involving a minor), Article 257, Part 3, Points 1 and 3 (Computer illegal taking by a criminal organization on a particularly large scale), Article 285, Part 2, Points 1 and 3 (Establishing or using a legal person, a separate subdivision, or institution by a group of persons with prior consent for the purpose of carrying out illegal activities or concealing illegal activities or record-registering an individual entrepreneur for the same purpose causing particularly large-scale property damage) of the Criminal Code or registering as an individual entrepreneur for the same purpose), Article 296, Part 3, Points 1 and 3 (Money laundering by a criminal organization on a particularly large scale), Article 396, Part 2 (Illegal circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic (psychoactive) substances, their mixtures or substances equivalent thereto (analogues thereof) or precursors without the intention of selling).

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