Hayots Ashkharh Daily, Armenia
Dec 5 2007
BAGRATYAN AND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
60 thousand Dollars enough to come into possession of tens and
millions
When on the cold April days arriving all of a sudden, the gardener
burns old tires to prevent the trees from getting frostbitten, he has
no goal to cause a global climate change. He just wants to survive a
couple of cold nights. The difficulty is that, unlike gardening
activities, political events gain their own logic at some moment.
Everything would be clear if, after the livening of L.
Ter-Petrosyan, Hrant Bagratyan were restricted to events of `local
nature’, pursuing a goal a) to help his former boss not to get
frostbitten, after blossoming unexpectedly in such cold weather, and
b) to survive those chaotic times on his own. However, judging by the
enthusiasm with which Mr. Bagratyan began to condemn each step of the
criminal administration and praise the years when he was a Prime
Minister, our young friend has committed himself to causing a global
climate change.
Generally, H. Bagratyan was born at a wrong time.
Humanity had invented a great number of classical intrigues much
earlier.
For instance, the loving Casanova is justifiably considered as the
inventor of the financial pyramid. The outstanding Italian recalled
in his memories how during a ball he heard from his friend, one of
the financial assistants to the King of France, that the Ministry if
Finance was going to organize a lottery. In the morning, the great
idea had already developed. He made an offer to set up offices
receiving money from the population and declare the lottery
profitable. The offices would work based on the principle of
brokerage, and the longer the money remained there the more
profitable the game would be.
Very quickly Paris became full of similar offices which belonged
to Kazanova himself and the relations of the King. The citizens
actively took their money there. But there came a moment when there
were so many people demanding their own share of profit at the same
time, that the pyramid collapsed. Kazanova disappeared, having taken
several large sacks of money.
But when a Prime Minister, Mr. Bagratyan sweated his guts out not
to fall behind his outstanding predecessors. In particular, under his
patronage and active support, the well-known `Ararat’ wine factory
was privatized 1996. Under the 380-2 privatization contract (dated
December 6, 1996), the new owners became Samvel Zarzand Tadevosyan,
with 59.86 per cent of shares and Anahit Albert Haroutyunyan, with
20.61 per cent of shares, as well as 8 other shareholders, each of
whom possessed no more than 1 per cent of the total number of the
shares.
In the meantime, the transaction was carried out by the mediation
Dariko Nazaryan, H. Bagratyan’s mother-in-law. For this reason, she
was given more than 20 per cent of the factory shares. And the
privatization of the factory actually cost pennies. But the
transaction was registered by the name of some Anahit Haroutyunyan.
However, one should be at least naïve to think that the
mother-in-law and the son-in-law entered into the transaction for the
20 per cent only. According to some information, the business ties
between S. Tadevosyan and D. Nazaryan date back to the Soviet times.
In particular, they had implemented joint activity first in the
former Material and Technical Basis of Masis and then in the alcohol
beverage production unit of `Hay Koop’. That’s why H. Bagratyan
legally gave S. Tadevosyan the share control package as a gift
(Anahit Haroutyunyan, the other shareholder, being the relative of
the latter), despite the fact that the real owner was D. Nazaryan, or
more precisely, H. Bagratyan himself.
The price of the Yerevan Wine Factory was estimated AMD 177
million 500 thousand; however, with the purpose of plundering the
state directly, Mr. Bagratyan introduced the ill-fated vouchers whose
real value was more than 10 times below price imposed by the state.
After all, the giant of the Armenian winery, in addition to the wine
collection included in its balance, as well as the raw material base
situated in Masis, the unfinished construction of Balahovit, the
Dilijan resort (with an area of more than 1700 square meters), the
equipment for the nursery school situated in Yerevan were privatized
by the new owners with the help of 8525 vouchers – actually at the
price of 60 thousand US Dollars.
This is just one of the examples of plundering the state property
at a time when H. Bagratyan was a Prime Minister. And there are a lot
of examples like that. This is the true character of H. Bagratyan who
implemented the reforms of the Armenian pan-National Movement.
Therefore, he’d better enter into a transaction with the Ministry
of Justice, instead of writing a L. Ter-Petrosyan’s speech for the
demonstration scheduled on December 8. We don’t mean bribes and other
blameworthy phenomena like that. Mr. Bagratyan of course stands above
all this. What is currently perceived as a `transaction with the
Ministry of Justice’ actually emerged in the United States at the end
of the 19th century and very quickly became a most widespread
phenomenon in various countries of the world.
The most widespread form of the transaction is the contract with
the prosecutor’s office, which serves as a basis for 90 per cent of
court decisions in the United States. The essence of the contract is
that the court drops some of the charges from the accused or labels
the offence as less grave in return for his/her pleading guilty.
And everybody turns out a winner. The accused is subjected to a
milder form of punishment, and the prosecutor’s office gets the
opportunity to report on the disclosure of one more crime. Besides,
the judge saves time, and the taxpayers save means since, due to the
transaction, either the trial becomes speedier or there’s no longer
any need for a full trial with the participation of a jury panel.
It is up to H. Bagratyan to decide which of his crimes to confess.
He has quite a wide choice.
VREZH AHARONYAN
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
