Owner of 'Nor Zovq' and 3 Others Detained: Investigation Committee

Four individuals have been detained in connection with alleged tax violations involving 'Nor Zovq' LLC. The information was reported by Gor Abrahamyan, spokesperson for the Investigative Committee of Armenia, on his Facebook page.

On March 1, at the end of the working day, the investigative body submitted requests to the first instance court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan for the detention as a preventive measure of A.A., the owner of 'Nor Zovq' LLC, R.A., the company's director, S.S., the chief accountant, and V.S., the owner of another LLC that provided technological-programmatic support for the alleged criminal mechanisms.

The court approved all the requests, and a detention measure of two months was chosen against the aforementioned individuals, Abrahamyan wrote.

'Nor Zovq' LLC has been accused of performing tax violations, specifically failing to fulfill tax obligations by notably underreporting turnover through the use of information technologies. The owner of 'Nor Zovq' LLC and two employees have been charged with committing criminal acts pursuant to parts 1 and 2 of Article 290 of the RA Criminal Code, while the owner of the supporting LLC has been charged with assisting in the commission of those crimes.

It is worth noting that on January 20, it became known that investigators from the Investigative Committee of Armenia were conducting searches at the 'Zovq' supermarket chain. Later, the State Revenue Committee announced that 'Nor Zovq' LLC provided customers with cash register receipts containing fiscal codes, but did not report information regarding the payments made for the purchases reflected on those receipts to the tax authorities.