Social Worker Embezzles Beneficiary's Funds in Shengavit: Charges Laid

The preliminary investigation into a criminal case initiated regarding the illegal receipt of remuneration by a public servant who does not hold an official post has been completed at the Shengavit division of the RA Investigative Committee.

Charges have been brought against the deputy head of the Shengavit social service territorial division.

According to the obtained evidence, from February 1, 2012, to October 2, 2014, the deputy head of the Shengavit social service territorial division, authorized by the community service passport to present proposals to the head of the division concerning the provision of social support to specific families, performed calculations of family vulnerability units in the information database through a programmatic method and determined the family's benefit eligibility. As a pretext for not discontinuing the legally established social benefits for a deaf-mute citizen registered as a beneficiary in his service area, he misled the citizen's daughter, claiming that her father was not a legal beneficiary and demanded and personally received as illegal remuneration the amount allocated as benefits for the first month of 2013 and 2014 in his office.

Based on sufficient evidence obtained, charges have been brought against the deputy head of the Shengavit social service territorial division under the first part of the third section of Article 311.1 of the RA Criminal Code. A measure of restraint has been selected in the form of a signature not to leave.

The preliminary investigation is concluded, and the criminal case, with an accusatory conclusion, has been sent to the prosecutor overseeing the legality of the preliminary investigation.

Notice: The person suspected or accused of the alleged crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty in accordance with the procedure established by the RA Criminal Procedure Code by a legally binding court sentence.