“A day’s issue extended to 6 months”
The process of granting loans with no interest rates for customs clearance of cars with Georgian state license numbers is over. As the RA Ministry of Finance reports, 1,516 drivers have received loans with no interest rates. They are mainly from Lori province (606 applications), Shirak province (304 applications) and Tavush province (375 applications), while 150 drivers with Georgian state license numbers received loans with no interest rates in Yerevan.
As president of "Asbarez" Club Levon Barseghyan told "A1+", there are 657 cars with Georgian state license numbers registered in Shirak province alone. Although 586 drivers have met the requirements for receiving loans with no interest rates, the government has signed contracts with only 304 of them.
According to Barseghyan, almost half of the drivers of the province have not received the loan because they have to worry about returning the money in six months. "The government turned the issue that could be solved in a day to one that will be solved in six months," said Levon Barseghyan.
"All drivers applying for contracts present information about their cars. If the price for a citizen's car was set at 1,470 dollars before this conflict, now the price for that car is 2,100 dollars after the driver applies for a loan. This means that that loan is also false," said Barseghyan, adding that the drivers will either have to rely on people living abroad to send them the money, or put their cars up for auctions or lose them.
