“Recently we have revealed another illegality. There is a foundation, according to which if the government receives its budgetary funding at the beginning of the year in an exceeding amount then the additional part is deposited in the bank. Depositing of budgetary funds in the banks has become a mass phenomenon,” yesterday stated the former prime minister Hrant Bagratyan. Bagratyan says that the government does not dare to talk to the ArmRusGasArd leadership. Besides all, there is a question on the quality of the gas and the state has the right to set a standard. According to him, the state is afraid of transparency as everything will be revealed. He mentioned that now the government will try to artificially reduce inflation but inflation in 2010 will actually be over 10% and in May of the current year the USD rate will make 450 AMD. When speaking of the expenses of the ArmRusGasArd that the director of ArmRusGasArd Karen Karapetyan has paid 25 thousand pounds to participate in an event organized in London. “This is some bourgeois event, where the head of the ArmRusGasArd had his participation. Nothing else is said except for the fact that the participation fee is 25 thousand pounds. This is a state company. Does he ask us before paying for participation? At the expense of who is he doing a favor? Who gave you the right to participate in such bourgeois events, spend the state money and include it in the tariff? We should tell all these smiling faces in London that we don’t need such events,” said Bagratyan.
