A former acting head of the Investigative Committee’s main department for economic crimes and smuggling, Gor Tadevosyan—accused of organizing the theft of $590,000—has been placed under house arrest, his lawyer Arshak Ghazaryan told Factor.am.
Another suspect, Edgar Grigoryan, is detained for three months on court order, said his lawyer Ashot Apresyan.
The criminal case was transferred to the court on July 7 and assigned to judge Tatevik Muradyan.
According to the indictment, Grigoryan and Tadevosyan agreed in advance to secretly steal the funds and split them equally. Tadevosyan provided Grigoryan with keys to investigator Suren Hakobyan’s office door and non‑flammable safe, plus an access card for the department building belonging to investigator Arkadi Aghajyan.
On May 20, 2025 at about 16:40, Grigoryan used duplicates of those keys to unlawfully enter the main department building of the Investigative Committee on Deghatan Street in Yerevan. Late at night, he opened office617, on the sixth floor, and the safe, from which he took cash equivalent to 227,185,400 Armenian drams—some $590,000.
The next morning, May 21 at around 08:20, he carried the money out in bags. Later he met investigator Sahak Petrosyan, and to ensure completion of the crime and evade detection, Grigoryan said that Tadevosyan was his friend. Petrosyan called Tadevosyan, who, in collusion with Grigoryan, falsely claimed that Edgar's brother Artur was the person involved. Grigoryan then left unobstructed, after which the two—by prior agreement—exfiltrated the $590,000.
Both men have confessed. Law enforcement recovered most of the money from Grigoryan, but about $11,000 remains missing. Tadevosyan’s lawyer Arshak Ghazaryan told Factor TV that “Tadevosyan has restored the missing amount.”
