{"id":271123,"date":"2016-02-19T12:44:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T08:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271123"},"modified":"2016-02-19T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T08:49:42","slug":"armenian-defense-minister-could-be-sacked-after-thorough-procurement-probe-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/02\/19\/armenian-defense-minister-could-be-sacked-after-thorough-procurement-probe-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Defense Minister Could Be Sacked After Thorough Procurement Probe &#8211; Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Zhoghovurd daily newspaper writes that the Head of Armenia&#39;s presidential Oversight Service Hovhannes Hovsepyan has confirmed that the Service has been conducting inspections for nearly a week in the country&#39;s Ministry of Defense.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe officials&#39; attention, the paper notes, is primarily focused on the procurement process carried out by the Ministry: &ldquo;[The inspections] are not related to procurement of ammunition, rather the process of purchasing non-military goods for Armenia&#39;s Armed Forces.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tZhoghovurd stresses that Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center published Thursday it&#39;s latest Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index, according to which &ldquo;the Defense Ministry, as well as individual staff members, own a majority shares in trade organizations&nbsp;activities and&nbsp;financial statements of which are not transparent.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Initially, several Defense Ministry employees tried to &#39;convince&#39; the inspectors to &#39;overlook&#39; some facts. The word is that the results of more comprehensive check-ups could lead to the resignation of Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan. According to rumours circulating in the Ministry, a thorough probe into the procurement process might reveal that some members of the minister&#39;s family have influenced this process,&rdquo; Zhoghovurd says.<\/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>Zhoghovurd daily newspaper writes that the Head of Armenia&#8217;s presidential Oversight Service Hovhannes Hovsepyan has confirmed that the Service has been conducting inspections for nearly a week in the&#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":[15583,63988,62662,12998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271123"}],"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=271123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271123\/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=271123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}