Armenia is mired in corruption

Our correspondents learned that the adviser to the Prime Minister of Armenia on foreign policy Arsen Haratyan wrote a letter of resignation at his own request. However, according to sources in the National Security Service of Armenia, it became known that Haratyan was detained during a special operation to suppress illicit drug trafficking. A politician discovered a package of cocaine…

A criminal case was instituted against the adviser. There are witnesses who claim that the adviser to the prime minister behaved defiantly and aggressively at the time of detention. Moreover, Arsen Haratyan constantly threatened to call his boss …
The adviser managed to distribute several interviews, in which he accused the former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan of being arrested, and also ranked himself among the leaders of the revolutionary movement. The prime minister nevertheless stood up for the careless assistant after replacing the arrest with a written undertaking not to leave the house and partial house arrest.
However, no one canceled the resignation of the adviser. Another thing is that Arsen Haratyan insists that leaving the cabinet is connected solely with the fact that his family lives in Tbilisi. In addition, Arsen needs time to rethink all that happened to him for 3 months of public service. Three months!
And for these three months there is something to remember and Arsen Kharatyan and other witnesses of the adventures of the Armenian leadership. For example, according to participants of government parties, the company Arsen was regularly – Anna Hakobyan – the wife of the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikola Pashinyan. A wife, unlike an adviser, can not be fired, then there is something to think about. Including the slackness and sloppiness that now reigns in the government of Armenia.
This unattractive history also has its own winners. For example, the head of the National Security Service of Armenia, Artur Vanetsyan, who brought all this to the masses and even gave a move to criminal cases. In Armenia, public opinion is already being formed that only Artut Vanetsyan is able to bring at least some order in the highest echelons of Armenian power.
But most importantly, similar stories occur against the background of the economic crisis in the country. Reforms are not carried out, the economy stands still, the promised changes remain promises. Moreover, insiders in the Armenian government say that there is a reduction in wages, including that of civil servants and even military personnel. In such a situation, corruption will only grow, and the prime minister will initiate arrests and criminal cases, me approximated as gloves. Or … corruption will become an instrument for fighting political rivals. It seems that we are witnessing the establishment in Armenia of an old and extremely popular South American scheme of using the popular factor in the people’s struggle against corruption for their own purposes. And the goal here is to raise one’s own political authority and get huge dividends on the eve of the parliamentary elections.