Sargis Harutyunyan
Senior Armenian state officials
tasked with combatting corruption have faced no investigations into
millions of dollars in financial aid which they and their wives claim to
have received from undisclosed sources in recent years.
The officials running the “oversight services” of President Serzh
Sarkisian, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian and the Armenian parliament
have reported such lavish financial contributions in their annual asset
declarations filed with the state Commission on the Ethics of
High-Ranking Officials.
So far none of them has been accused by the commission of using their
position to enrich themselves and their relatives. Nor are
law-enforcement authorities known to have investigated the origin of the
“donations” which Armenia’s leading anti-graft watchdog believes carry
serious “corruption risks.”
