Court to consider bribery case in Abovyan community 

ArmInfo.The Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia has established that the head of the relevant department of the Abovyan Community Communal Services (CNCC) in the  Kotayk region abused his official powers to commit illegal actions in  favor of a convicted person by accepting a bribe.

Specifically, the preliminary investigation revealed that, in order  to fulfill the 80 hours of community service required by the verdict  of the Kotayk Regional Court of First Instance of the Republic of  Armenia, the convicted person in the aforementioned criminal case was  sent to the CNCC in May 2025, where the head of the aforementioned  department was appointed to oversee the community service. However,  the latter demanded and, between May and June 2025, received a bribe  through an intermediary in exchange for illegal actions: fictitiously  registering cleaning work mandated by a court order without actually  performing it.

As a result, the convicted person failed to report to the assigned  station and did not perform the community service, but a certificate  of actual completion of the sentence was prepared in his name and  sent to the relevant authorities.

The official of the Abovyan Public Utilities NGO has been charged  under Article 435, Part 2, Clause 3 of the Criminal Code of the  Republic of Armenia. The person who gave the bribe has been charged  under Article 436, Part 2, Clause 3 of the Criminal Code of the  Republic of Armenia. The person who acted as an intermediary in the  transfer of the bribe has been charged under Article 437, Part 1 of  the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia. The preliminary  investigation of the criminal case has been completed, and the case  materials with the indictment have been sent to the prosecutor's  supervisory authority with a petition for approval and referral to  the court.