School principals suspected in embezzling funds written off as salaries for bogus employees
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YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS. School principals in several provinces are suspected in embezzling state funds, police said.
Law enforcement agencies have launched investigations into misconduct in the public school of Lenughi, a village in the Armavir province. Police said the principal and accountant of the school have written off funds as a salary for a guard from 2014 – 2018, who never even showed up for work, and embezzled the money. The two are suspected in appropriating 2,5 million drams.
A similar investigation is underway in the Aygevan village of the same province. The school principal is suspected in embezzling more than 2 million drams with the same method – filing employment records by the names of relatives and appropriating the money.
A probe into the very same type of misconduct is also underway involving the school principal of Araks village, Armavir.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan