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TI: CORRUPTION REMAINS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
SOCIETY | 10.03.15 | 15:45
http://armenianow.com/society/61298/transparency_international_corruption_in_armenia
By SARA KHOJOYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
Transparency International says widespread corruption remains in the
field of public procurement, despite government efforts to curb it.
"We have systemic problems," Transparency International expert Artak
Manukyan told reporters Tuesday. "Through certain means it is possible
to register short-term progress in some directions, but that is not
growth established in legislative or institutional terms."
Manukyan said that Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union
opens the way for more opportunities of corruption, saying that EEU
countries will be granted certain trade preferences.
"The government presents this as a method of encouraging local
producers, but this is the worst method, by which corruption risks are
created. Even without it our budgetary means are not efficiently spent,
and now we create extra grounds so that goods that were previously
purchased by x amount of money, are now purchased 15 percent more
expensive," Manukyan said.
From: Baghdasarian
SOCIETY | 10.03.15 | 15:45
http://armenianow.com/society/61298/transparency_international_corruption_in_armenia
By SARA KHOJOYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
Transparency International says widespread corruption remains in the
field of public procurement, despite government efforts to curb it.
"We have systemic problems," Transparency International expert Artak
Manukyan told reporters Tuesday. "Through certain means it is possible
to register short-term progress in some directions, but that is not
growth established in legislative or institutional terms."
Manukyan said that Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union
opens the way for more opportunities of corruption, saying that EEU
countries will be granted certain trade preferences.
"The government presents this as a method of encouraging local
producers, but this is the worst method, by which corruption risks are
created. Even without it our budgetary means are not efficiently spent,
and now we create extra grounds so that goods that were previously
purchased by x amount of money, are now purchased 15 percent more
expensive," Manukyan said.
From: Baghdasarian