It can’t be such that they steal 20 million drams from the state and we will return 20 million drams; the state had not given them a zero-percent loan so that they later bring and repay.
Davit Sanasaryan, head of the State Oversight Service of Armenia, said the aforementioned at Wednesday’s press conference to sum up the results of the first 100 days of his tenure in this capacity.
“The amount being returned [to the state] exceeds, by several times, the amount they have stolen,” Sanasaryan noted, in particular. “My impression is that people imagined that they came to work abroad [in Armenia] and wanted to get rich, and many [of them] got rich.
“[But] our objective is not that former corrupt persons fill prisons. And if they compensate the damage caused to the state, they will be granted pardon.”
The State Oversight Service had conducted inspections at six companies in Armenia. And Sanasaryan noted that, in the coming days, they will return considerable amounts from these companies to the state.