Any Case of Corruption means a Waste of Citizens’ Hard-Earned Funds: Avag Avanesyan

Recent OECD studies have shown that 68 percent of corruption cases in the organization’s member countries are recorded in the procurement sector.

The Deputy Minister of Finance, Avag Avanesyan, stated at the public discussion of Draft RA Anti-Corruption Strategy and Its Implementation Action Plan for 2023-2026, which the “Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO, “Europe in Law Association” NGO, the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia, Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Armenian National Platform (EaP CSF ANP), the EU-Armenia Civil Society Platform, the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia, and the RA Ministry of Justice  organized on 29 August.

According to Avag Avanesyan, the general policy of the Ministry of Finance is to ensure absolute transparency in procurement.

“Any case of corruption means a waste of hard-earned funds of RA citizens. Our goal is to identify all such cases and reduce them as much as possible. We understand that the dream that corruption cases will become 0 is almost impossible, because the developed world has not managed to solve this problem, but we must try to do it. We will continue our steps to achieve absolute transparency,” the Deputy Minister noted, adding that the ineffective implementation of the strategy will provide an opportunity to waste funds.

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