Epress.am News from Armenia
The State Migration Service of the RA Ministry of Territorial Administration has allocated 50 million 146 thousand AMD (about $123 thousand USD) in 2013 for the development and exchange of information on refugees, reports local daily Zhoghovurd.
According to documents in the newspaper's possession, this amount has been given to the state non-profit organization Computer Center, tasked with collecting, processing, and archiving information on refugees.
"That money laundering occurs mainly through such programs is known to many. However, another fact is noteworthy here: the migration service has allocated about 14 million AMD to the state non-profit organization Dormitories for maintenance work in the buildings housing refugees. That is, almost 3.5 times more money is spent on collecting information on refugees than on meeting the needs of [those] refugees," reports the paper.