Preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding initiated on evasion of taxes in particularly large amount by entering distorted data into the unified calculations of value added tax and excise tax in the documents that serve as the basis for taxation, committed by companies engaged in production and sale of alcoholic beverages, is ongoing in General Department for Investigation of Economic Crimes and Smuggling of the RA Investigative Committee.

In the result of large-scale evidentiary and procedural actions conducted, as well as operative-intelligence measures taken in the course of preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding 300 million AMD out of the damage caused to the state has been recovered.  

Preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding is ongoing.