This is like a Theater of Absurd. This was the opinion of Advocate Tigran Atanesyan that he expressed about the session of the Anti-Corruption council which took place at the Government.
He added, “We all know the hose where the Prime-Minister lives. Its appearance shows the luxury. This man has been in public offices since the independence, and if parallel with it is possible to have such business, that is if the members of the family are involved in business and have accumulated such wealth, this is commendable. But let us see how much taxes they paid. They should have paid tens of millions. This is vague. I do not even want to know this. It is not my business. If he has earned this honestly he will enjoy it honestly. Otherwise he should be punished. But look how these people live and what do they fight against. Do they fight against themselves?”
According to Mr. Atanesyan, such Councils are of formal nature and their activities will be carried out formally as well. “As usual the minor bureaucrats will suffer. That is an investigator who requested some 1000 USD for a case will be arrested and they will say that they fight against corruption, that is, the poor investigator was to blame. But when it is planned to allocate 50 million AMD from the state budget to some obscure NGO, which does not even have an address, that should go to teach farmers how to plant potatoes is simply ridiculous,” said the lawyer.
