The former mayor of Goris Samvel Harutyunyan told Aravot.am about the activity of Acting Governor of Syunik Ara Dolunts (in the photograph). “Twenty years ago, among many people, I was participated in Deputy Executive Committee of District Council of Goris Ara Dolunts’ father’s funeral. In the presence of 200 people gathered Ara made a stunning announcement that his immediate supervisor, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of District Council Robert Aleksanyan have had a role in his life which was not less than the role of his own father. Ara said as long as Robert Armeniakich is alive he is not going to admit that he is an orphan. Several months after when I had to disclaim my responsibilities of Chairman of the Executive Committee and of District Council and announced about it, before making the statement I referred to Robert Alexanyan warning that he is going to have a severe employment end. I told him that the officials appointed by him will soon go against him, first and foremost, his deputies, I meant especially Dolunts. A year after my prediction came true. Ara Dolunts, the deputy of Robert Aleksanyan, first signed underneath the dismissal claim of Aleksanyan who appointed him to that post. And this is the perception of aradoluntsyan moralality”,- told Mr. Harutyunyan. He said that A. Dolunts did it by the
assignment of Surik Khachatryan. “They have to get rid of Robert Aleksanyan so that not only Goris, but the whole region would obey Surik Khachatryan. He was to wholly take the power of the region and make his property.
Ara Dolunts contributed to all this. Since then, for 18 years, Ara, subjected to Surik Khachatryan, together with him authored numerous illegal acts, owning and abusing state property. Three years ago the President of Chamber of Control issued the results of the audit carried out in the Syunik Governor’s Office as to flagrant abuses committed by the administration of Syunik, about the waste of financial resources. The First Deputy Governor Ara Dolunts was not apart from it. On March 2004, when Surik Khachatryan was appointed a Governor, he appointed Dolunts as the First Deputy. By the leadership of Surik Khachatryan and Governor’s Office, “Syunik” Charity Foundation and “Tigran and Trdat” company owned by his family conducted millions of dollars of abuse and appropriations, and Ara Dolunts has been one of the active participants”. According to information provided by Mr. Harutyunyan, at the demand of Surik Khachatryan, governmental and non-governmental organizations, individuals had transferred millions of dollars to “Syunik” foundation. “And significant part of it was plundered and robbed. The majority of dozens of objects of Surik Khachatryan are formulated in the name of given company. There is a workshop manufacturing euro-doors and windows in plundered and privatized malls in Goris, and it turns out that, in the past ten years, during the construction and repair of state facilities, schools, health and houses of culture, the procurements were made right from aforesaid workshop with higher than the market price. It turned out that just this company was almost the winner of all tenders”.
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P.S. Henaran.am has published news that the acting Governor of Syunik Ara Dolunts has initiated a signature gathering campaign in protection of the former Governor Surik Khachatryan. The Acting Governor has gathered the elite of Goris: the intellectuals, teachers, artists, doctors and also village mayors and explained that Khachaturian’s salvation depends of their signature gathering.
