By its verdict of 23 July 2026, the Anti-Corruption Court of the Republic of Armenia granted the claim filed by the Prosecutor’s Office for recovery of AMD 1,150,584,000 from V.A., the Director of two limited liability companies, in favor of the Republic of Armenia as compensation for damage caused to the state.

The Department of State Interests Protection of the Prosecutor General’s Office had filed a statement of claim with the Anti-Corruption Court against V.A., demanding the recovery of                  AMD 1,150,584,000 in damages caused to the State.

The claim was based on the fact that, by the judgment of the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan city dated 17 March 2026, V.A. had been found guilty of committing the offence prescribed by points 1 and 2 of part 3 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code.

Particularly, V.A., acting as a participant and the executive body (Director) of two limited liability companies, in prior agreement with the person who had assumed the de facto management of those companies, and while being under a legal obligation to calculate and pay tax liabilities within the procedure and time limits established by the Tax Code, included false information in the companies’ unified monthly returns for income tax, social payments, value added tax (VAT), and excise tax, as well as in their annual corporate income tax returns, with the intent to evade the payment of taxes on a particularly large scale, amounting to AMD 1,150,584,000.

As a result, V.A. evaded payment to the State budget of AMD 584,864,000 in income tax; AMD 553,825,000 in value added tax (VAT) and AMD 11,894,000 in corporate income tax.