"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"In 2019, in post-revolutionary Armenia, the "State Interests Fund of Armenia" CJSC was established, which "through full and comprehensive advice and support to potential large investors in the Republic of Armenia, should contribute to the increase of investment flows in the Republic of Armenia, by initiating and implementing sectoral projects, to the development of the economy of Armenia. the development of the potential and the implementation of the results of scientific and technical development in various sectors of the economy, the improvement of the business environment in RA and the process of creating and improving favorable conditions for the business sector."
And what did that structure do? "failed", as Nikol Pashinyan, the founder himself, admitted. "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper's well-informed sources report that the state did not lose tens of millions due to the State Interests Fund of Armenia, ANIF, but, in total, the loss reaches 25 billion drams or about 63 million dollars.
In 2019, when ANIF was formed, no one would have thought that it could become the den of corrupt deals of the time.
"Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper, studying the reports of ANIF, revealed that more than 6 billion AMD were spent for the body called to provide investments to the state in 2019-2023: salaries of ANIF employees from the state budget, equal payments, taxes.
In addition, by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, almost 5 billion AMD was invested in order to pay for the shares of the national air carrier "Armenian National Airlines" CJSC ("Fly Arna"), which was established jointly with the "Air Arabia" company.
In other words, more than 11 billion AMD were spent from the total budget for 2 projects. According to the 2022 report, the salary fund was 1.3 billion AMD, where mostly the relatives of the employees of the power structures worked with astronomical salaries.
Let's continue the series with Hard Rock Cafe Yerevan, "Aig-1", "Global Connect", "Eco Fresh Mushrooms", "Sermit Farm" operating under the subsidiary CJSC "Entrepreneur + State Anti-Crisis Investment Manager". 10 billion drams, almost 25 thousand US dollars, have been allocated from the state budget for the implementation of the projects. calculation, let's add the 1.7 billion drams allocated for the liquidation of ANIF, the 11 billion drams allocated for the administrative expenses of "Fly Arna" airline and the ANIF, the 10 billion drams allocated for the programs managed by "Entrepreneur + State" CJSC and the state the balances of the financial reports of the expenses available on the procurement website (there is no report for 2023), then it will turn out that a round sum of about 25 billion AMD - almost 63 million US dollars were spent by the state, but almost all projects failed.
Let's remind that the process of liquidation of the company started in the spring of this year, and even for the liquidation, the Government of RA allocated 1.7 billion drams from the state budget for the repayment of loans, the final calculation of employees, etc. Speaking about the biggest robbery of his government and answering the question of who is responsible ( for the dissolution of ANIF), Nikol Pashinyan gave this answer during his press conference on August 31 of this year "We need to get answers regarding the liquidation of ANIF."
That process was not so unnoticed, there are failures, there are studies on the occasion of these failures, studies are continuing. As a result of these studies, I hope we will get answers.
If we talk about failed projects, we can talk about other projects, there are necessarily failed projects in every country."
In other words, even Nikol Pashinyan admits that this project has failed, but it remains hidden, exactly who and how he failed the projects and squandered the state budget money collected by the state and heroic taxpayers.
Let's remind that Tigran Avinyan, the current mayor of Yerevan in 2019-2023. He was the chairman of the board of directors of ANIF, at the same time in 2018-2021. he was the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, and in 2022-2023, the Deputy Mayor of Yerevan. Let us inform you that in this regard, criminal proceedings have been initiated on the basis of various applications, under the 3rd point of Part 256 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia (theft of entrusted property, especially large in terms of size) and Article 277, Part 2, Clause 2 of the Criminal Code of the RA (Commercial of the Republic of Armenia or another state or the use of authority by an employee of another organization to the detriment of that organization, as a result of which particularly large property damage was caused).
As part of the criminal proceedings, a number of persons were interrogated, a number of evidentiary actions were performed, but no one has been charged for all of this so far."
