THREATENING MONEY EXCHANGE WORKERS

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[08:13 pm] 29 January, 2009

Police officers warned money exchange workers at the Gyumri central
market that what they are doing is illegal and that they can no
longer work in the market. There were also threats-"If you continue
to work here, we will take drastic measures". Being caught off guard,
they appealed to the Marz district.

Let us remind that last summer, police officers had invaded the market,
arrested a group of policemen and some money exchange workers and
confiscated all the money that they had. They went on for a couple
of months without any conflicts, but it really hit them in the winter.

A decision was made and later an order based on which they must make
everything legal since they are working illegally and aren’t paying
taxes to the government.

The exchange workers want to work by the law. They simply want to
get off easy and pay a reasonable amount of tax.

They had recently appealed to head of the Marz Lida Nanyan, who had
promised to do her best to help them. Today, the exchange workers
met with Deputy Marz Head Mikayel Vardanyan, but the issue remained
unsolved once again.

According to them, the rumor and scandal is in the interest of the
exchange rate spots and their budgets.