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State Control Service finds violations in Energachap privatization tender

First reported by Ararat News: 18:23

Updated 21:39, 13 sources

Economy. Photo: Pandukht / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped
Photo: Pandukht / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

According to the State Control Service, the 2003 tender to privatize the state shares of Energachap CJSC was won by Golden Roof, owned by a person affiliated with the former chairman of the board of directors of Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA), even though the other participant had offered an investment of 1.34 billion drams. The service says the then director of ENA interfered in the selection. The report has been submitted to the Prosecutor General's Office.

Coverage timeline

Who reported first and how the others caught up. Each bar shows how many of that side's outlets covered the story.

First to report: Ararat News · 18:23 · Balanced

Pro-government 3 / 6 First: Public TV news (H1 / Lurer), 10 min later
Balanced 5 / 14 First: Ararat News, 18:23
Opposition 5 / 21 First: 24news.am, 38 min later
Timeline as a list
  1. Ararat News (Balanced)
  2. Hetq (Balanced)
  3. Public TV news (H1 / Lurer) (Pro-government)
  4. Factor (Balanced)
  5. Civic.am (Pro-government)
  6. 24news.am (Opposition)
  7. Tert.am (Opposition)
  8. Public Radio of Armenia (Pro-government)
  9. Mediahub (Opposition)
  10. Infocom (Balanced)
  11. Radar Armenia (Balanced)
  12. 168 Zham (Opposition)
  13. Oragir.news (Opposition)

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