{"id":251990,"date":"2014-04-10T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=251990"},"modified":"2014-04-10T12:26:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T08:26:32","slug":"defense-ministry-made-2-5-billion-in-purchases-from-third-party-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/04\/10\/defense-ministry-made-2-5-billion-in-purchases-from-third-party-newspaper.html","title":{"rendered":"Defense Ministry Made 2.5 Billion in Purchases from Third Party: Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">You can stumble upon remarkable facts in the RA Control Chamber&#39;s 2013 annual report, writes local newspaper <em>Zhoghovurd<\/em> in its issue today.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe newspaper reports that the RA Ministry of Defense signed purchase contracts of 2 billion 458 million AMD (about $5.9 million USD) with organizations that are neither manufacturers nor importers.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;It said that the purchases were carried out by a third party; as a result, 172 million 877 thousand dram (around $420,000) were paid from the RA state budget. The defense ministry also purchased sugar and salt this way, from a third party, paying 10 million dram [about $24,077] more for these goods,&quot; reports the paper.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Zhoghovurd <\/em>recalls that in 2012, RA Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan (pictured, in the suit) was reprimanded by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan for abuse in the area of purchasing, but the situation, it seems, has not been rectified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local daily Zhoghovurd reports that the RA Ministry of Defense signed purchase contracts of 2 billion 458 million AMD (about $5.9 million USD) with organizations&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15583,18698,54716,54715,12998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}