YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. As a result of the examination conducted in some spheres in 2008, the Control Chamber of Armenia has sent 8 cases on most considerable abuses with high corruption risks to the RA Prosecutor General's Office, the chairman of the Control Chamber Ishkhan Zakarian stated at the January 14 press conference. He said that the materials on the financial abuses and violations committed by Sokol Group company during the allocation of apartments to inmates of children's homes under the program "State Assistance to Alumni of Children's Custodial Organizations" were sent to the prosecutor's office in the autumn of 2008. It turned out later that a criminal case was already opened in April 2008 by the State Interest Protection Department of the RA Prosecutor General's Office in connection with the case of purchasing apartments at higher than market prices for allocation of apartments to former inmates of children's homes with state budgetary resources. Thus the materials sent by the Control Chamber became additional ones. In the words of I. Zakarian, in connection with 7 materials sent to the prosecutor's office later, a criminal case has so far been opened under "4-5 quite tough articles" of the RA Criminal Code only by the facts of abuses committed by Etchmiadzin Jrshin LLC during the cleaning of the Hrazdan River's bed, reinforcement of its banks, and construction work done for watter supply of irrigated land plots. He said that the other cases are still at the examination stage.

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