Armenia’s Investigative Committee reports that Major-General Melsik Chilingaryan and Colonel Armen Margaryan were arrested on May 30 and charged with “Abuse of power, transgression of authority or administrative dereliction causing grave consequences.” (Article 375, Point 2 of Armenia’s Criminal Code).

Chilingaryan is a former chief of the Armenian Armed Forces’ Department of Armaments, and Margaryan once headed the armaments department’s vehicle services division.

In another criminal case, the IC reports that Colonel Mher Papyan was arrested the same day on charges of “negligent service causing grave consequences.” (Article 376, Point 2 of Armenia’s Criminal Code)

Papyan had been serving at the Department of Procurement of the Ministry of Defense.