
The municipality of Tashir, a town of some 7,500 in Armenia’s northern Lori Province, will be ushering in New Year’s in style.
It will spend AMD 945,000 ($1,965) to purchase lights and other items to decorate some 300 Christmas trees throughout the town.
That amount, and an additional 700,000 drams, will go to Kerob Tomeryan, a member of the Tashit Municipal Council. Tomeryan also won the contract to supply other fixtures and ietms to the town as well.
In the bidding for the contract, Tomeryan faced competition for only two items. Even then, it’s crystal clear that the competition, Vahagn Khachatryan, was more for show than ...
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