Criminal case initiated on citizen's report.

The Department for the Criminal Cases Investigated in the National Security Agencies of the Republic of Armenia initiated a criminal case on robbery, legalization of illegally obtained income and preparation of false payment documents, the RA Prosecutor Genera's Office reports.

On 19 March 2012 a citizen of Armenia made a report informing that money had been stolen from his account. The examination of the materials revealed that from 23 June, 2010 to 28 June, 2010 an unknown person had swindled 3 685 757.40 AMD through 39 deals made in China from the account of K. Petrosyan's bank card through POS terminal by using a false bank card causing to K. Petrosyan property damage in large amount.

Later, in order to hide and skew the source of the swindled money, the above-mentioned unknown person had legalized the illegally obtain income by making 39 deals with different trade firms in China.

According to the examination the deals had been made by an unknown person under the name Vitaly Izmayilov.

Taking into consideration the unknown person had swindled a large amount of money by using false payment cards and legalized the illegally obtained income, a criminal case was initiated according to the RA Criminal Code Articles 177, part 3, point 1, 190, part 2, point 1 and 203, part 2, point 1.

The preliminary investigation of the criminal case was assigned to the Investigation Department of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia.

It is noteworthy that K. Petrosyan decided to apply to the General Prosecutor's Office after watching the Prosecutor's Office's program on Yerkir Media and AR TV stations about the cases of theft committed by using false bank cards.