Former Minister of Culture of Armenia Asmick Pogosyan is wanted, it is arrested in absentia, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Armenia reports.
According to the investigation, a member of the board of the public organization AOCC (Armenian Society of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries) Mountains Davtyan, the head of the organization – the former ambassador of Armenia in Israel Armen Smbathyan and the first deputy chairman, the former Minister of Culture of Armenia Asmik Pogosyan implemented a criminal scheme.
This organization has been placed from Soviet times in an old building in the center of Yerevan, on Abovyan Street. With the support of the chairman of AOC, Pogosyan issued this building to the ownership of the organization. Later, AOCC has established a limited liability company, whose capital has invested the specified building and its land plot, rated in 201 million drams (at the current rate – about 400 thousand dollars). Thus, the building has become the property of a commercial enterprise.
Finally, 100% of the shares of the specified enterprise for 550 thousand dollars were sold to a company registered at the British Virgin Islands addressed to the daughter-in-law of Pogosyan (Francesus Kutrup). She, in turn, sold 50% of the shares to a friend Armen Smbatian – Sarkis Martirosian and Mother Mount Davtyan – Adele Stepanyan.
Consequence in terms of Armen Smbatyan and Mountain Davtyan completed, the case is sent to court with an indictment.
The preliminary investigation of Pogosyan continues, the search is declared in its respect. The preventive measure was elected arrest.
Building, later given under AOCC, was built at the end of the XIX century and some time served as a hospital. Represents a combination of various styles of the European architecture of that era. It is included in the list of monuments of republican importance.