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VARUZHAN HOKTANYAN. "MORE STUDY IS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PART OF AMD 700 BILLION WAS ROBBED."
July 8 2013
The Executive director of "Transparency International Anti-corruption
Center" Varuzhan Hoktanyan believes that it would be better if the
Control Chamber calculates not only how much money and how it is spent,
but also pays attention on the effectiveness of specific programs. "For
example, it is said that there have been violations in the North-South
road construction, breaching, but it does not say in what condition
is the road in the result of those violations, how it should be and
was not, and so on. It would be much more appropriate if information
were provided about the results. Those violations and breaching are
not only financial results, it was not expressed in the form of money
to be given." In the conversation with Aravot, Mr.
Hoktanyan also said that it would be interesting and instructive, if
a group of economists, for example, representatives of the University
of Economics, or economists from the YSU Faculty of Economics conduct
in-depth study of the methodology used by the Control Chamber and
the methodology by which the government countered CC, and arrive
at serious, professional conclusion. However, he notes that Ishkhan
Zakaryan did not say that he had robbed AMD 700 billion, but he had
told that there are corruption risks in the transaction of AMD 700
billion, in other words, there are ways and methods by which concealing
and looting of those funds was possible. "But whether it became true,
or not, that is another question. And the fact that Serzh Sargsyan
stood up and initially announced that it was not AMD 700 billion, but
only AMD 200-300 million, is also wrong. Without detailed studies,
without checking the risks it is impossible to tell what results
these risks achieved. There are two extreme alternatives either all
possible mechanisms were put in use and all AMD 700 billion was robbed,
and the other extreme alternative that no penny was robbed from AMD
700 billion that contains all those risks, the mechanism of robbing
was missing, either by display of pure good will, or in the result
of preventive actions of control mechanisms." Melania BARSEGHYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/07/08/155313/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
July 8 2013
The Executive director of "Transparency International Anti-corruption
Center" Varuzhan Hoktanyan believes that it would be better if the
Control Chamber calculates not only how much money and how it is spent,
but also pays attention on the effectiveness of specific programs. "For
example, it is said that there have been violations in the North-South
road construction, breaching, but it does not say in what condition
is the road in the result of those violations, how it should be and
was not, and so on. It would be much more appropriate if information
were provided about the results. Those violations and breaching are
not only financial results, it was not expressed in the form of money
to be given." In the conversation with Aravot, Mr.
Hoktanyan also said that it would be interesting and instructive, if
a group of economists, for example, representatives of the University
of Economics, or economists from the YSU Faculty of Economics conduct
in-depth study of the methodology used by the Control Chamber and
the methodology by which the government countered CC, and arrive
at serious, professional conclusion. However, he notes that Ishkhan
Zakaryan did not say that he had robbed AMD 700 billion, but he had
told that there are corruption risks in the transaction of AMD 700
billion, in other words, there are ways and methods by which concealing
and looting of those funds was possible. "But whether it became true,
or not, that is another question. And the fact that Serzh Sargsyan
stood up and initially announced that it was not AMD 700 billion, but
only AMD 200-300 million, is also wrong. Without detailed studies,
without checking the risks it is impossible to tell what results
these risks achieved. There are two extreme alternatives either all
possible mechanisms were put in use and all AMD 700 billion was robbed,
and the other extreme alternative that no penny was robbed from AMD
700 billion that contains all those risks, the mechanism of robbing
was missing, either by display of pure good will, or in the result
of preventive actions of control mechanisms." Melania BARSEGHYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/07/08/155313/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia