Combat against corruption is imitated

Combat against corruption is imitated

amalia-kostanyan
05:44 pm | September 25, 2009 | Politics

"If the authorities aim to combat against corruption they must start
from oligarchs and rigged elections," says Amalia Kostanian, the
Chairwoman of the Transparency International (TI) anti- corruption
center.

TI’s Global Corruption Report 2009 shows the main legal and
institutional anti-corruption changes effected in the republic from
June 1, 2007, to May 31, 2008.

In the part Corruption and the Private Sector (GCR), the report refers
to state bodies’ chase against "Royal Armenia" and GALA Companies.

Amalia Kostanian says their report differs from those of other
countries since "the report doesn’t speak of a businessman bribing the
authorities. We find it useless to speak about this phenomenon as the
two spheres are interwoven."

TI Chairwoman sees no explicit combat against corruption in Armenia.

"All their efforts are imitated. What’s the use of this farce after
the rigged elections?" says Ms. Kostanian and adds the authorities had
better direct the money to pensioners and vulnerable people."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://a1plus.am/en/politics/2009/09/25/

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS