ArmInfo. The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia opened criminal cases on the facts of abuse in the field of operation of small hydropower plants.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office, as a result of inspections by a working group specially set up by the RA Prime Minister's decision, out of 184 small hydropower plants in 143 there are no water meters, in some cases the permissible norms of releases and water use were repeatedly exceeded, in other hydropower plants there were no fish protection devices mouths of rivers. It was also found out that a number of former employees of the Ministry of Nature Protection, abusing their official duties, did not write out to the companies operating HPPs the corresponding fines in the amount of 29 million drams.