The Minister of Health of Armenia, Anahit Avanesyan, was questioned on the "Covid case."

During a press conference Friday, Avanesyan confirmed that she was questioned in this regard in December.

The minister, however, did not disclose any other details in this connection.

Earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am reported that the chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia, Sasun Khachatryan, had stated that there was a need to question Arsen Torosyan, who had held the position of health minister at that time, in the case of misuse committed in Armenia during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Anti-Corruption Committee had issued a statement that Gevorg Simonyan, who had served as Deputy Minister of Health between 2020 and 2022, being responsible for the distribution of state funding, having ties with Babken Shahumyan, the director of the Medline Clinic in Yerevan, had not exercised sufficient oversight, as a result of which Babken Shahumyan had stolen around 120 million drams.

Babken Shahumyan and Gevorg Simonyan were arrested, while house arrest was chosen as an alternative preventive measure for L. Y., head of the drug-resistance department of the National Center of Pulmonology. A number of other persons were also arrested.

On April 27, however, Gevorg Simonyan was released.

A state of emergency was declared in Armenia during the Covid-19 outbreak, and the then Deputy Prime Minister, now the Mayor of Yerevan, Tigran Avinyan, was appointed as the respective commandant of Armenia.

At that time, Arsen Torosyan was the Minister of Health. Torosyan had made a statement regarding the actions carried out within the framework of the criminal proceedings launched, noting that it is strange for him that he and the incumbent Minister of Health, Anahit Avanesyan, have not been questioned so far.

A total of 27 people stand accused in this criminal case.