The Court sentenced M. Toumasyan to imprisonment for committing theft, legalizing illegally obtained income, preparing false payment documents and forging documents.

During the preliminary investigation it was proven that M. Toumasyan at the beginning of September, 2008 in the capital of Russia Moscow, through the Internet got acquainted with a person under the pseudonym “Loader” who was not found yet. The latter offered to provide information written on the disks of the bank cards issued by the US “Citibank” with the purpose to make false duplicates of the cards and to swindle money from the “Citibank” ATMs in the USA.

They formed an organized group and from September to November 2008 the members of the group acted in different countries that is Russia, Mexico and the USA, had a contact with each other through the Internet and stole 436.500 US dollars equal to 134.178.839 AMD from the “Citibank” ATMs and the ones in the supermarkets “7-11” in the USA.

Later M. Toumasyan decided to prepare false cards himself and purchased the necessary equipments and materials. On January 19, 2009 he sent an ICQ message to a person with another pseudonym and ordered him to prepare fake holographic logo-labels for "Visa" and "Master Card" plastic payment cards as well as fake layers for signature stuck on the other side of the cards. He prepared 32 fake copies of payment cards.

Besides, M. Toumasyan acquired false driving licenses in order to make transactions by using the fake cards.

RoA Prosecutor General's Office reports that the Court of First Instance of Avan and Nor-Nork administrative districts on December 23, 2011 sentenced M. Toumasyan to 8 years of imprisonment provided by the Article 66 of the RA Criminal Code that is assignment of punishment by accumulation of crimes according to the RA Criminal Code Article 177, part 3, points 1 and 2, Article 203, part 3, point 2, Article 190, part 3, point 2 and Article 38-325, part 1.