“We are improving administration, but they cry we are killing people at the customs. Nobody is going to kill anyone,” Head of the RE State Revenues Committee Gagik Khachatryan told reporters.

He refuted the report on unexpected inspections at the SIL Concern owned by the disgraced oligarch Khachatur Sukiasyan. The article as published by the Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper. Khachatryan also commented on the fuss about inspectors’ recent “attack” on the jewelry market: “Are you going to act as their advocates? What is the reason?”

“They have been working as they liked for so many years. Now that we have installed 8,000 cash registers and are trying to legalize the trade they have raised a clamor. Law prohibits trade in terms of foreign currency, let them not,” Khachatryan said.

In conclusion he promised tax and customs revenues will be ensured next year.

T.P.