Bakhchagulyan hitting small business?
"Not being able to reveal other violations of food quality, Abram Bakhchagulyan filed a false case and discredited the ArmFood small company in Hrazdan in early November," businessman Boris Soghomonyan told "A1+".
We remind that in early November, Head of the Food Safety Inspectorate at the Ministry of Agriculture Abram Bakhchagulyan, a day before a press conference devoted to his first 100 days in office, had declared that stafilakok and then salmonella typhi had been found in the milk produced by ArmFood.
The businessman assures that Bakhchagulyan's inspectorate has been concealing the act of laboratory examination to this day and hasn't revealed who was injured from that milk. "Head of ArmFood Boris Soghomonyan has handed the raw, pasterized milk to three different laboratories for examination, of which two haven't found none of the above mentioned bacteria," Soghomonyan says.
According to him, we are dealing with a scandal related to misuse of office by which Bakhchagulyan is not only causing a blow to small and medium business in Armenia's provinces, but is also calling into question the government's function of overseeing food safety.
"They probably assumed that the businessman in Hrazdan isn't capable of defending his interests and that they can show that the government agency is inactive by throwing the blame on a small company. It is also likely that somebody is competing in that sphere or has set an eye on the name "ArmFood".
These ventures have already hurt the Hrazdan businessman's pocket, and he is preparing to take steps against the government agency's arbitrary actions and violations of the law. Here he will be dealing with compensation for enormous amount of material damage, declaring the decision as invalid and other demands.
