Public toilet, as a place for money laundering for Yerevan Mayor`s Office
ArmInfo. ArmInfo News Agency received a letter from the member of Yerevan Council of Elders from Yelk oppositional faction Ani Samsonyan, which tells about another fact of theft from the capital budget on the example of one of Yerevan public toilets.
As Samsonyan tells, on December 19 2016 Yerevan Mayor's Office signed agreemenet with Bellis JSC, on allocating funds amounting 920 thousand AMD, according to which the company is obliged to implement cleaning works in the public toilet, in the center of Yerevan near Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church by Yervand Qochar street.
The agreement envisaged detailed services that the company undertook to carry out - from cleaning methods, to the selection of sanitation and cleaning tools. However, as time showed, all this was negotiated for nothing. In fact, neither the Yerevan Mayor's office nor Bellis JSC intended to implement and did not implement its obligations. Since the signing of the agreement a year has passed, but the public toilet has become a public garbage dump and has ceased to be suitable for its original purpose.
After Samsonyan raised the issue before the leadership of the mayor's office, her request was redirected to the prefecture of the Yerevan "Center" community, they say, she is the matter. Prefect of the Center community Ara Sadoyan in response to the request Samsonyan promised to understand the situation, but after three months the situation remained unchanged. After the issue was raised again at the meeting of the Council of Elders of Yerevan, Ara Sadoyan instructed the employees of the prefecture "Center" to clean and tidy the territory. And indeed, after 6 days the toilet was cleaned. However, in this case, the question remains open as to why the money for cleaning the toilet was transferred to Bellis JSC, if the territory was finally put in order by the employees of the prefecture Center.
JSC Bellis, according to the description of the services it provides, is a construction company and does not clean up the territories. No less remarkable is the fact that the founder of the JSC and the prefect of the "Center" community Ara Sadoyan are full of grief. Coincidence?
P.S.: Public toilet, located near the church Grigor Lusavorich, is one of those two biotoilets that were purchased at the expense of the state budget of Armenia for 170 thousand dollars each. The second one is located on the territory of the cable car "Wings of Tatev". It remains to be hoped that at least the second toilet, purchased for a budgetary 170 thousand, operates according to its direct purpose.