ARMENIAN JUSTICE MINISTER APPARENTLY UNDERESTIMATES HIS COLLEAGUES IN THE GOVERNMENT
Arminfo
2007-05-09 21:07:00
According to Armenian Justice Minister David Haroutyunyan, the Global
Gold company’s statement that the government, in the person of the
nature protection minister extorting bribes from the foreign investor
for extending the licence for exploring and exploiting gold deposits,
poses obstacles in the way of the American company is a political
statement.
At a press-conference at the Yerevan office of the REGNUM news agency,
the Justice Minister noted that he sees no reasons for investigating
this incident. "The Global Gold company has never stated who
exactly demanded a bribe. And if you study various publications on
this topic, you’ll see that different people are mentioned there,"
he said. If there appears a distinct statement about "a specific
person demanding a bribe in a specific amount for a specific action",
the Public Prosecutor’s Office will immediately take up this issue,
the Minister noted. He considers that the statement was so delicate
that it resembled a political statement.
To note, it would be naive to suppose that a minister would
personally express a desire to get a bribe. Probably, D.Haroutyunyan
underestimates his colleagues in the government.