Zhoghovurd: Minister’s Business Trip Cost State Budget Over 4 Millio

ZHOGHOVURD: MINISTER’S BUSINESS TRIP COST STATE BUDGET OVER 4 MILLION AMD

Thursday,July 04

The business trip of Armenian Minister of Territorial Administration
Armen Gevorgian to New York in May of this year cost the state budget
over 4 million 480 thousand AMD. The ministry paid that sum for two
air tickets for a Yerevan-Prague-Paris-New York flight and a New
York-Paris-Yerevan flight, ‘Zhogovurd’ writes.

“According to documents at the paper’s disposal, one of the air tickets
was a business class ticket. In all likelihood, it was bought for the
minister and cost 3.1 million AMD or $7.5 thousand. Another ticket,
an economy class one, cost 1.3 million AMD or $3 thousand and was
bought for the minister’s advisor Suren Amirbekian who accompanied
him on the trip to New York. In fact, if the minister had bought a
ticket for $3 thousand instead of $7.5 thousand, his security would
not have been ensured. He needed a business class ticket to travel
safe and sound,” the newspaper says.