Damage in the amount of 5.3 billion drams caused to Yerevan as a  result of abuse of former officials of Yerevan Municipality and  Sanitek Company

ArmInfo. As a result of  abuses committed by former officials of the Yerevan Municipality and  competent persons of the Sanitek company, Yerevan suffered damage in  the amount of 5.3 billion drams. This was stated in the official  statement of the RA Prosecutor General.

According to the source, it was revealed that officials of the  Yerevan Municipality in 2013 and 2015 in official documents they made  false information about the availability of evidence confirming the  professional experience of Sanitek International LLC and Sanitek SARL  company, the necessary technical means, financial resources and labor  resources, assessing satisfactory compliance with international  standards. As a result, the latter concluded agreements on garbage  collection and sanitary cleaning in Yerevan, including the provision  of services in the winter months.

In addition, the circumstance was ignored that the condition for  concluding annual agreements for the purpose of providing the  services provided for in the Main Agreements is that the bank or  credit organization or insurance company provides a guarantee.  Meanwhile, under contracts concluded with a validity period of 10 and  12 years, starting in 2014, agreements were concluded that set the  price of the contract in the absence of such guarantees. Thus, the  community was deprived of the opportunity to receive an amount in the  amount of a bank guarantee, and improperly performed or not completed  work and services were provided with their own funds. As a result,  the community of Yerevan suffered material damage in the amount of  1.607.721.900 drams. The study also revealed that in 2013 and 2015,  according to 2 signed agreements, it was planned to install 16  thousand 1100-liter metal wheeled containers, as well as collecting  and removing garbage, cleaning, repairing and replacing damaged parts  of containers, for which annually paid 1.805.000.000 AMD. However,  when studying the documents, 5170 containers were inventoried, of  which only 99 were metal.

And according to the data provided by the two companies, starting  from 2014, according to the agreements concluded with the  Municipality of Yerevan, only 9907 containers with a capacity of 1100  liters were purchased and installed. In addition, the treaties  provided for the cleaning of 4000 container platforms, while only 459  were built from them.

Yerevan Municipality officials paid the full amount for the cleaning  of the sites, while only about 20% was built. As a result, starting  in 2014. About 354 million drams were paid for cleaning up  non-existent sites, which corresponds to the amount of material  damage inflicted on the Yerevan Municipality.  From the above it  follows that the competent persons of the company, knowing that  instead of 16 thousand containers, only 9907 were installed, and the  services for cleaning platform platforms for containers were not  provided in full, by deception and abuse of trust, they received  3.706.000.000 drams.

Taking into account that the signs of a crime are evident in the  recorded violations, a criminal case has been opened in the  Department for the Protection of State Interests under Article 314 I  of the Part, 308 of the II Part, and 178 III of the Criminal Code of  the Republic of Armenia. The preliminary investigation in the  criminal case was entrusted to the RA Investigative Committee.

To recall, problems with the removal of household waste in Yerevan  began in the summer of 2018, and in the spring of 2019, Sanitek  company was fined  twice for failure to fulfill obligations, for a  total of a small  amount of AMD 40 million, while monthly, according  to the agreement,  the municipality transferred about 5 billion drams  to the company's  account. Residents of Yerevan were extremely  outraged by the  accumulated garbage throughout the city and the  inaction of the  relevant services.  Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutyan  repeatedly publicly expressed  dissatisfaction with the work of  "Sanitek" company, stressing that  Yerevan residents will no longer  tolerate work of this quality.