Why didn’t the NCTR notice “ArmNews”’s inaccuracies?
After studying "ArmNews"'s package proposal for the digitization tender, President of "A1+" Mesrop Movsesyan has come to the following conclusion:
"This was a hooligan quarrel between boys. On December 16, Grigor Amalyan challenged me and now I respond that as president of the NCTR, he and the entire commission will be brought to justice."
After studying the "ArmNews"'s package proposal, "A1+"'s attorneys found out that there were several inaccuracies in the NCTR's decision N 96.
"The certificate of the 500 billion drams is not a document that the NCTR shouldn't have checked. Not taking into account that "ArmNews" CJSC doesn't have a certificate to implement its programs, the NCTR declared the company the winner by decision N 96-A," "A1+"'s attorney announced today.
The attorneys also found out that "ArmNews" employees were also included in the package proposal submitted by ARMENIA TV. In its package proposal, "ArmNews" presented broadcasting expert Grigor Khachatryan as an employee since 2001, even though "ArmNews" didn't even exist in 2001.
The President of "A1+" and his attorneys find that the NCTR didn't reveal the inaccuracies presented in the package proposal due its lack of activity and subjectivity. Instead, the NCTR "studied" the documents of 30,000 citizens who voted for "A1+" and found that two of them were "false" and deprived "A1+" of airtime by accepting this as a basis.
"It is very strange that the NCTR didn't notice the inaccuracy of "ArmNews"'s financial document. I have said several times that the important thing for me is how many people voted for "A1+" before the tender. I don't count those votes as money, but votes."
The eight members of the NCTR were supposed to have gotten acquainted with the package proposals submitted by 20 television companies, analyze and evaluate them from October 28 to December 16, but they were physically incapable of doing that.
"If the NCTR found inaccuracies in "A1+"'s package proposal, why did the commission put it up for discussion when it could have called us and demanded clarifications?" said attorney Tigran Ter-Yesayan.
"A1+" will submit its subsequent appeal to the Administrative Court on February 21. "We will ask the court to acknowledge "A1+" TV's violated right and consider the NCTR's decision N 96-A as invalid," said Tigran Ter-Yesayan. According to the attorney, the NCTR was only after one thing in the tender and that was to "discredit "A1+"".
