RA Authorities Charged With Corruption

RA AUTHORITIES CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION

Public Radio of Armenia
Sept 12 2006

The US Embassy in Armenia has received documents, which include
corruption charges connected with the demands of the American Global
Gold Company, charges that reefer to state officials, MEDIAMAX was told
at the Press Service of the Embassy. "We have thoroughly investigated
the documents and seeing that these include serious accusations, we
immediately put the question before our colleagues in RA Government,"
they noted.

The Embassy representatives particularly emphasized that they have
conveyed no records, as media reported. However, they conveyed some
documents received from the Global Gold Company.

"We continue to anticipate that the accusation against state officials
should be taken seriously and investigated, as it is the case in the
United States," Press Service of the US diplomatic mission noted.

Representatives of the Embassy do not consider it proper to make
further comments on the nature of indictments, since these have not
been confirmed yet. "We keep in touch with the Global Gold Company
and we were told there they posess no information about the further
process of the accusations, and we are very troubled with the fact,"
the Press Service stressed.