The Department of State Interests Protection of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Armenia has studied the documents received from the Water Committee on the applications, factual water supply, actually irrigated land plots and system losses during 2019 gravity-fed irrigation system in Vayk.

 

In the result of the study, it was found out that in order to provide the irrigation of lands and environmental flow of the Arpa River during the irrigation period, water is taken from Kechut reservoir during the whole year on the basis of applications submitted by “Yeghegnadzor” Water Company by means of the gravity-fed irrigation system belonging to Vayk according to the Decision of Government.

 

According to a study conducted by the Water Committee, irrigated land plots under contracts in the mentioned region is 411.5 hectares.

 

According to the applications of 2019 the average volume of water supplied per hectare is 10449 m3. Meanwhile, according to the indicators of supplied water, the average volume of water per 1 hectare was 3170 m3 that was actually supplied to the subscribers.

 

Thus the actual amount of water supplied for 1 hectare of land was 7279m3 or 3.3 times more than the amount of water supplied for 1 hectare submitted by the application.

 

According to the information received from the Water Committee, the cost of 1m3 of irrigation water is 11 AMD, and the loss of the system is 36.7%.

 

Thus in case of the total amount of water factually supplied to the subscribers and from the water supply system submitted by the application, the company has unnecessary loss of 4.739.000m3 of water, which is equal to 52.129.000 AMD.

 

According to the decision of December 26, 2002 of the RA Government the water supplier is obliged to record the amount of water factually supplied by the water source, the volume of water supplied to each water subscriber, the amount to be paid for it, the amount paid and the amount of debt. The water supply to the water subscriber is carried out according to the contract, the application of the water use schedule which is an integral part of it.

 

Thus the results of the study show that the water supplier factually submitted an application for water which exceeded the demand by 3.3 times, and the allegedly illegal supply of water was carried out.

 

Taking into account that in the result of the study, the official of the non-profit company has abused his powers against the interests of the company, state and legal interests, resulting loss of 4.739.000m3 of water, i. e. damage of 52129000 AMD. The Department of State Interests Protection of the RA General Prosecutor’s Office has initiated a criminal case under Article 214, Part 2 of the RA Criminal Code.

 

The preliminary investigation was assigned to the RA Investigative Committee for.

 

Notice: Every person suspected in or charged with a criminal offense shall be presumed innocent unless proved guilty in the manner prescribed by the RA Criminal Procedure Code and unless the verdict comes into legal force.