Azat Posted October 24, 2001 Report Share Posted October 24, 2001 Armenia Gets Back 2.4m Dollars Embezzled from Energy Sector in 90s BBC Monitoring Central Asia ( October 23, 2001 ) Text of report by Armenian news agency Mediamax Yerevan, 23 October: Some 2.4m dollars have been repaid to the Armenian state budget in the course of investigative measures being carried out as part of the criminal case instituted on the basis of a report by a temporary parliamentary commission, which investigated abuses in the Armenian energy system from 1992 to 1999. As Mediamax news agency's parliamentary correspondent reports, this was stated in a written report by Prosecutor General Aram Tamazyan, circulated at the National Assembly today. The report says that over 15 months, the investigative group sent 19 "affiliated" criminal cases to the courts, involving 53 bureaucrats. The highest ranking of them is Stepan Aslanyan, who occupied the post of deputy energy minister and acting director of the Armenergo [Armenergy] state closed-type joint-stock company during the period 1995-1998. © 2001 BBC Monitoring Central Asia. via ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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