Administrative Court completes hearing in A1+’s case
The Administrative Court today ended the hearing in the case of A1+ Company.
The embattled TV Company is disputing the December 16, 2010 decision of the National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR) whereby A1+ was rejected a broadcasting license in another frequency tender administered by the state regulator after allegedly submitting fraudulent documents. The results of the process published by the NCTR showed A1+ trailing the operating TV channel, ArmNews in the digital broadcasting tender.
Today the parties presented their arguments in court and answered judge's questions.
As a counterargument NCTR representative Artak Sargsyan cited the financial documents of A1+'s package, which, according to him, contained "numerous inaccuracies." In particular, Sargsyan referred to the document of international companies which "allegedly" provided financial assistance to A1+, but did not exist as it was "discovered" by the state regulator.
His announcement was immediately followed by a question from A1+'s representative Alexander Sahakyan.
"Why doesn't the NCTR investigate all financial sources of the company? Why didn't NCTR Chairman Grigor Amalyan call a sitting to inform A1+ about the "faked documents" immediately after discovering these documents?"
The NCTR representative said the commission is not entitled to convene special sittings by law.
At the end of today's court sitting the plaintiff asked the court to satisfy the claim, while the defendant demanded to reject it, arguing that the NCTR decision was within the law.
The court will publicize its decision on October 3.
