The Results Are Horrifying, Some Violations Are Even Incredible: Head of the National Assembly Staff

The next phase of the internal audit of the National Assembly of Armenia has concluded, during which the activities of the human resource management division from 2017-2018 were examined. This was announced by Tigran Galstyan, the head of the National Assembly staff, on his Facebook page.

He specifically noted: "Indeed, the results obtained are horrifying; some violations are even incredible, which is why I decided to present them to the public. Based on a selective review (that is, not of all documents), approximately 763 cases of violations of laws, requirements of labor regulations, shortcomings, and various other errors were recorded over a two-year period. Unfortunately, due to the principle of confidentiality of information and the need to operate in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Armenia, I cannot disclose that information. I can only point out that among hundreds of violations, the following were recorded:

• Several orders and decisions accepted with backdated signatures;
• The absence of certain decisions from the registers of orders;
• Missing orders from the Head of Staff-Secretary General;
• A case of loss of a competition package was revealed;
• Various violations were recorded in the reviewed competition packages;
• Some documents were missing from the personal files reviewed;
• Problems related to the violation of deadlines indicated in competition announcements and documents;
• Presence of competition packages resembling a pile of papers;
• Cases of violations in awarding class ranks simultaneously with appointments;
• Numerous orders and decisions made on non-working days;
• Documents present in personal files, but with various issues;
• Cases of violations in awarding class ranks within three days after the probation period;
• Shortcomings in the implementation of the retraining process according to the rules (NO-025-N);
• Incomplete certification documents, packages that more closely resembled piles of papers;
• Numbering of orders and instructions marked with a pencil where class rank should have been awarded, but was not;

This list could go on for a long time. By the way, it should be noted that the cases mentioned do not include those that may contain overt criminal elements.

Currently, the internal audit of the procurement process is underway.