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.”
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