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Araks Mamulyan

Arms Dealer, Charged with Defrauding Armenian MoD, Released from Detention

Armenia’s Criminal Appeals Court today decided to release Davit Galstyan, an advisor to former Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan, from pre-trial detention on charges of defrauding the defense ministry by supplying the Armenian military with poor-quality artillery shells unfit for combat.

Galstyan’s lawyer, Armen Harutyunyan, reported the news to Hetq, saying that he has yet to receive the court’s official verdict and cannot specify the reason for his client’s release.

Harutyunyan told Hetq that his client denies the fraud charge and has not paid back any of the money he’s alleged to have made on the deal.

In February of this year, Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) accused Galstyan of pocketing US$1million in the 2018 deal.

A company belonging to Galstyan supplied artillery shells to Armenia’s Armed Forces in 2018. The NSS claims that the company claimed the shells were produced in 1983–1986 but that the export documents were falsified, and that the shipment included Czech artillery shells made in 1977.

Davit Galstyan was appointed an adviser to then Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan in 2019. 

The Armenian Ministry of Defense, in 2018, announced that a joint Armenian-Russian Kalashnikov factory as set to open in Armenia. The agreement was signed between Galstyan’s Royalsys Engineering and Russia’s Kalashnikov, 25% of which is state-owned.

  

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