08/12/2014 13:36
Vazgen Khachikyan gets 12 years in prison
Vazgen Khachikyan, a former head of the State Social Security Service of Armenia, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The decision was taken today by the general jurisdiction court of first instance of Yerevan’s Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts.
Khachikyan was charged under the Criminal Code’s articles on embezzlement of particularly large sums by an organized group, fraud, and official forgery.
In 2006- 2010 he embezzled particularly large sums – about 260 million 956 thousand drams.