Mesrop Movsesyan, the manager of “A1+” promised to NCTR as early as a year ago, when NCTR found on December 16, 2010, that the application of “A1+” is groundless and false, that they would answer for their “careless work”. Now we have that answer in the form of court ruling in hand. There are a few interesting explanations here why they turned a blind eye to the mistakes of “Armnews” and perceived those as fateful in the case of “Meltex” LLC.
Let us remind that “Armnews” closed corporation presented a document as a financial certificate, reading that “Ameriabank” will invest 500 million AMD in the TV channel – the document was given to “Armnews” LLC by “Ameriabank as a commercial credit, which was denied by NCTR. However, according to the commission’s explanation in the ruling, there is no difference between “Armnews” LLC and closed corporation and other uncertainties were not important information, therefore did not affect the commission’s decision. As for the financial document of “A1+”, according to NCTR response, “without that document your whole business plan is just a nice memorandum of wishes.”
Let us mention that 15 out of 34 pages of the ruling were questions of the petitioner, to which NCTR responded with 5-page short answers.
As for the conclusions of the court, “According to the innermost conviction, based on comprehensive, complete and objective examination of the case”, the court has found that the petition is groundless, noting in the ruling as reasoning that the petitioner could talk and have its say in front of the commission members at 50-minute breaks during the commission meeting, therefore, the petitioner had the opportunity to have its say. The court found that the financial conditions of the competition participants was a more superior factor and could seriously affect the decision.
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