Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian tax and customs officials continue doing business which is illegal, Ombudsman’s report published today reads.

“Some tax and customs officials or their relatives, among them spouses, children, parents, sisters and brothers have been concurrently engaged in entrepreneurship. As a result, they have enjoyed illegal privileges over other entrepreneurs on the market”, report reads.

“The State Revenues Committee has passed a huge number of decisions - to the tune of 5712 - on tax injunctions without the exhaustion of their other restriction resources, such as penalties and double fines. At the same time, the injunction on the properties and the entire financial means of the entrepreneurs has considerably exceeded the amount of tax debts. As a result, the entrepreneurs were deprived of an opportunity to control their bank account and properties for quite a long time”, reads the report.