Financial Management Report indicates that there are corruption risks
TIAC 2017-2018 Financial Management Report indicates that there are corruption risks Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center has conducted a monitoring of the public finance management system for 2017-2018. They particularly studied the healthcare sector. Varuzhan Hoktanyan, head of the TIAC program and Sargis Nasibyan, program expert, first note that during the study they noticed that the budget performance on the website of the Ministry of Finance was hard to find. "It's for an ordinary citizen and an ordinary citizen, entering the website, should find it very easily, but the budget seems to be hidden on the website. First of all, it is necessary to enter the treasury, then to another place, then to another and then to find a new budget," Varuzhan Hoktanyan said. Experts also added that the report clarified that the amount of medical subsidies reduced from 2015 to 2017. "There were few cases in 2015, but the amount of money was huge, and in 2017, we see that the cases of government funding are enormous, and the amount of money is small," Hoktanyan added, saying that instead of getting medical treatment, funds were provided to private healthcare facilities and so on. "At this level we cannot say that there is corruption, we say there are corruption risks. The rest is already a matter of law enforcement bodies. We need to clarify issues related to state order," he said.
