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«ROYAL-ARMENIA» OUSTED FROM MARKET?

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In 10-15 days the coffee of the company «Royal-Armenia» may be ousted from the local market, as according to the representative of the company the Tax Committee does not give them license. Today the representatives of the JSC «Royal-Armenia» rendered a press conference to express their discontent with the State Tax Committee.

According to the company head Gagik Hakobyan, the Committee does everything to oust them from the market and to make the other companies play the game with their rules. By the way, only 20% of the production of the company is consumed in the local market, the rest is exported mainly to Russia and Georgia.

The problem is that the products of «Royal-Armenia» get customs clearance for twice as much as the other companies. According to the company lawyer Gevorg Minasyan, they pay 1.8 USD for 1 kg of Indonesian coffee, while others pay not more than 1.1 UDS. «If what we pay is right, why do they harm the country taking less money from other companies? », said the lawyer.

According to the case against «Royal-Armenia» on the basis of the protocol about the violation of tax rules, according to the lawyer, the circumstances which served ground for it are false, and «it was made up as a result of the cooperation of the State Tax Committee officials and the ex-supplier of the company, head of «Federal Investment Group», US citizen Vache Petrosyan».

By the way, according to Mr. Hakobyan, the organizer of all this is the STC Judicial administration head «who was convicted in 1996 for bribery and cheating».