According to Shamshyan.com, last month, the Investigative Department of the National Security Service of Armenia instituted a criminal case under the elements of points 1, 2 and 5 of Article 178, part 1 of Articles 34-312 and part 1 of Articles 38-34-312 of the Criminal Code of Armenia.

According to Shamshyan.com, the criminals are suspected of committing fraud in large amounts. There is information that the criminals visited various military units of the Defense Army of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) where they interacted with the soldiers and presented themselves as army generals with many friends and acquaintances, demanded and received money in various amounts from the soldiers and their relatives “to ensure the soldiers’ military service in favorable conditions, transport them from one battalion to another, accommodate them in a military hospital and solve the issues on exemption from military service with the government”.

According to the website, the “fake army generals” received large amounts of money from the soldiers’ parents and intermediaries in installments and plundered them in the period between September 2018 and May 2019. The amount was between AMD 5,000 and USD 5,000.