Thursday, March 14 2019 18:04

ArmInfo. Military Educational Lyceum. Monte Melkonyan should be allocated a new territory, and the current well-known ex-training center of the Ministry of Finance in  Dilijan may be transferred to concession management as a luxury  hotel.

This was told on March 14 to the conversation with journalists  by the head of the State Committee for Property Management Narek  Babayan.Narek Babayan has already managed to visit the territory of  the Training Center, familiarized himself with the property and its  potential. According to him, on the territory of the training complex  there is a hotel building, which is currently locked up, 9 two-story  cottages, and only part of the Central Building and the sports  complex are used by cadets of the military educational lyceum.  Monte  Melkonyan."Initially, the facility was built with funds from the  State Revenue Committee as a holiday home, a health and educational  center forstaff, but after the April 2016 war, against the backdrop  of popular indignation, the complex was provided to the military  educational lyceum. Monte Melkonyan. Of course, the lyceum cadets  should be provided with good conditions, but this does not mean that  the lyceum with 100 students should be given an area of 8 hectares  with excellent luxury living conditions, "he said, urging them to  refrain from manipulation in the context that the soldier deserves  best conditions.As the head of the State Property Agency pointed out,  the military lyceum does not and cannot provide hotel services, in  connection with which the government has thought about providing the  lyceum with other premises. "We need to find an acceptable, but good  solution to the issue.  The lyceum should be provided with good  conditions, we do not have the right to inactivate such a  construction with multi-million investments, to ensure the  preservation of which we continue to allocate huge funds and not  benefit from them," said Babayan , noting that 63 million drams are  allocated annually to ensure cleanliness.At the same time, as the  head of the State Property Agency stressed, at present there are no  specific calculations regarding how much money was actually invested  in the project, and how much was donated. There are also no  calculations about the profitability of the possible use of the  object as a hotel. But the best solution for the Training Center in  Dilijan, he said, would be to transfer it to trust management, as  well as for the Golden Palace Hotel in Tsakhkadzor, which is the  family of former customs head Armen Avetisyan, accused of illegal  business activities and legalization of criminally obtained amounts  in especially large amounts (money laundering), wished to <donate> to  the state.These hotels, according to the head of the Committee, can  become part of a network of global hotels.  At least, as he pointed  out, given the available opportunities, the training center in  Dilijan can claim the title of "Lakshari".Earlier, ArmInfo reported  that the State Revenue Committee (CGD) of Armenia opened a criminal  case on the fact of abuse of official authority, official forgery and  misappropriation or embezzlement during the construction of the  training center of the Ministry of Finance "Dilijan". As part of the  investigation of the case, data were obtained on the abuses and  thefts committed during construction.The construction of the training  center of the Ministry of Finance caused in its time loud discussions  in connection with the costs that the Ministry of Finance at the  expense of state funds directs to its equipment. There and spas,  saunas, a restaurant, several cafes and tennis courts, a separate  hotel.  Furnished object, to put it mildly, luxurious. The doors are  Italian, wooden and armored, plates made of press granite produced by  the United Arab Emirates, ceramic washbasins, toilet bowls, bidets.

 Only under one contract, 41 million drams were paid for kitchen  utensils: special forks for fish, others for steaks, chrome cigar  shears, ice spoons, shakers, 114 metal napkin containers of 40  thousand drams each, and each soap dish costs 60 thousand. dramas  Each of the enlarging mirrors in the bathrooms costs $ 100, and the  curtains are German-made. The whole structure is lined with polished  travertine. Only according to official documents, 26 billion drams,  or about $ 60 million, were spent on all this from the state budget.  Let us say, for comparison, that the construction in the center of  Yerevan of a huge hotel under an international brand required $ 23  million.Despite the fact that the Center was originally envisaged for  the needs of tax and customs officials, in 2016, immediately after  the change of government, the training center was transferred to the  state balance taking into account the inexpediency of the Center's  use by the State Revenue Committee and subject to further transfer of  title.