ArmInfo.The Armenian National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Armenia made a statement in connection with the criminal case about tax evasion on the side of the Tsakhkadzor cable road.
Thus, according to the statement of the NOC, received by ArmInfo, the Olympic Committee will take all legal measures to restore the possible damage to the NOC, both in the already opened criminal case and in the direction of possible damage as a shareholder in Larnatur LLC.The committee stated that the accredited manager of LLC Lernatur had informed the NOC back in April-May 2017 that the rope of the ropeway had broken and submitted an invoice for the purchase of a new one, meanwhile it was found out that the rope was not cut off, but only slightly damaged and did not pose any threat.
The NOC stated that these unreasonable actions of the head of Lernatur LLC caused damage to the committee in the amount of 117,500 euros, as a result of which they tightened control over the company's activities, and in August the director of this company was relieved of his post. "A new head was appointed to this position, after which it became clear that Lernatur's revenues were disproportionately larger than it seemed," the NOC said, informing that it was decided to monitor the activities of the Tsakhkadzor ropeway after the internal monitoring of the winter season 2018-19. roads, in connection with which on February 14 of the current year an agreement was signed between the committee and the licensed audit company."The auditing company recorded inconsistencies and lack of reporting for the period from 2009-2016, and disproportion of income for the period from 2009-2016 and 2017-2018, and addressed proposals to the NOC to initiate actions to protect their own interests and repair the damage.
Considering the above, and the fact that the NOC must receive 50% of the profits from the operation of the cable car, being also the owner of 50% of the shares of Lernatur (i.e., the NOC has the right to receive 75% of the net profit), the Olympic Committee will initiate all legal means to recover of the damage ", – stressed in the NOC of Armenia.Recall, according to the RA General Prosecutor's Office, as a result of non- payment of taxes during the operation of the cableway in Tsakhkadzor, the state suffered damage in the amount of over 476 million drams (over 980 thousand dollars). In fact a criminal case. In 2005, the NOC transferred the cableway to the trust management, first one and then from 2008 to the present – to another limited liability company. These companies in the years 2005-2017. presented a turnover totaling about 496 million drams, meanwhile, only in 2018 the turnover of the cableway was 537 million drams or 40 million drams more than in the past 12 years combined.