The deputy chief of the social services department of Avan and Nor Nork communities Artur Sukiasyan was arrested. According to the official announcement of the police, as a result of police investigation it turned out that A. Sukiasyan, working in the office of deputy chief of the social security services of Kanaker-Zeitun community during 2001-2008, has embezzled large amounts of money credited in the name of 22 deceased people during August 2008. This is a part of the case, due to which the head of the social protection service, RPA member Vazgen Khachikyan was removed from office. The reason why the latter was fired was the fact that he had embezzled the money in the name of several thousand deceased people. As a result of this machination during two years 113 million dollars was embezzled form the budget. In fact the authorities have decided to use this large case for the purpose of imitating a fight against corruption by referring to small cases of embezzlement. They use this fact for the small fish in case when the former chief of this department, who has embezzled millions, became sick after the case was discovered, received some treatment in Moscow and definitely is making barbeque in his native Akhtala village and getting prepared for serving for his party during the upcoming elections. By the way, this case looks like the case of the traffic police chief Margar Ohanyan, who is even though still arrested for embezzlement of state property, but his chief as fired, but serves as adviser to the president. In fact the authorities were very cruel to Khachikyan as they did not give him any adviser’s position. This in case when Khachikyan made a list of dead people and embezzled that money in this difficult situation by granting new “goats” to the authorities.
