Combat against corruption is imitated
"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."
