The preventive measure selected for former chief of the Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Acts of Armenia Mihran Poghosyan in Russia has been lifted, as reported the Public Relations Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia.

Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office had reported that, as a result of cooperation between the Prosecutor Generals’ Offices of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, on April 23, a Russian court had granted the motion of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation to remand Mihran Poghosyan for 40 days in order to consider the issue of his extradition to the Republic of Armenia.

Based on the charge, Mihran Poghosyan, holding the position of Chief Compulsory Enforcement Officer of Judicial Acts of the Republic of Armenia starting from June 11, 2008, appointed the person ensuring his personal security first-class consultant of the Operational Division for Compulsory Enforcement of the Central Body of the Compulsory Enforcement Service, and his personal driver — leading consultant of the same Division. As employees of the mentioned Division, they wouldn’t show up to work and wouldn’t perform the duties arising from the respective positions, but they did complete the personal assignments of Mihran Poghosyan and received salaries and payments equaled to that upon the assignment of Mihran Poghosyan.

As a result, Mihran Poghosyan, using his official position, plundered a sum of particularly large amounts trusted to him (AMD 44,199,463) from the state budget through squander.