Preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding initiated on fraud in particularly large amount committed by spouses was completed in the Department for Investigation of General and Election-Related Crimes of General Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee. 

In the course of the preliminary investigation of the criminal proceeding it was found out that the spouses, acting as online authorized representatives and online users of various organizations and individual entrepreneurs, and having the ability to submit applications and tax reports on their behalf, without the knowledge of the respective economic operators, submitted applications to the RA Ministry of Finance and to the RA State Revenue Committee with the intent to purportedly request refunds from the unified account and to obtain one-time grants under the measures aimed at mitigating the economic consequences of the coronavirus. On the basis of these applications, the sums intended for the aforementioned companies and individuals were transferred to their own bank accounts.

As a result, the spouses misappropriated funds in particularly large amount, 8 million 750 thousand 359 AMD in total, which were intended to be provided to other persons.

Public criminal prosecution was initiated against S.B. and A.A. according to the Point 3 of the Part 3 of the Article 255 of RA Criminal Code. 

The criminal proceeding with the bill of indictment was sent to the prosecutor.