Ex-director of Dzorak mental health center found guilty 

ArmInfo. The former director of the Dzorak Center for the Care of Persons with Mental Disabilities has been found guilty of accepting a large bribe and abuse of office,  the Prosecutor General's Office reports.

According to the guilty verdict of the Anti-Corruption Court on  December 18, 2025, the defendant, former head of the Center, S.Kh.,  was found guilty of accepting a large bribe and abuse of office.

It is noted that S.Kh., who served as the Center's director from  December 27, 2014 to March 26, 2020, demanded a bribe of $6,000 from  A.T.'s aunts V.T. and E.T. during a meeting in his office in  September 2019 in order to issue a power of attorney for the sale of  2/3 of an apartment on Gyulikekhvyan Street in Yerevan, owned by  A.T., a ward of the Center. He agreed to receive $2,000 before  issuing the power of attorney, and the remaining amount after the  sale of the apartment. In accordance with the aforementioned  agreement, Center Director S.Kh. received $2,000 and, in the absence  of the appropriate permission from the guardianship and trusteeship  authority (the Center, as A.T.'s guardian, does not have the right to  enter into transactions involving the alienation of the ward's  property without the permission of the guardianship and trusteeship  authority), issued a two-year power of attorney authorizing the aunt  of Center beneficiary A.T., V.T., to act as the representative of  Center beneficiary A.T.'s interests.

On July 6, 2020, a real estate purchase and sale agreement was signed  for 12 million 63 thousand drams, two-thirds of which were not  allocated to either A.T. or the Center, as his guardian.

At the prosecutor's initiative, on September 12, 2024, a criminal  case was filed against S.Kh. A criminal case was opened under Article  435, Part 2, paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Criminal Code (accepting a  large bribe for the benefit of the bribe-taker or a person indicated  by them) and Article 309, Part 1 of the Criminal Code adopted on  April 18, 2003 (abuse of office).

On September 24, 2024, the prosecutor approved the indictment against  S.Kh. and transferred the case materials to the competent court.

After the verdict comes into force, the prosecutor's office will take  appropriate measures to invalidate the purchase and sale agreement.