Manmar publishers was paid over 232 million AMD to print textbooks for grades 1-4.

The ministry ordered more books than schools had requested.

The ministry paid Manmar 6.3 million AMD to print books that weren’t needed – 3rd grade Russian (3.3 million AMD), 4th grade English (1.731 million AMD), 4th grade French (540 800 AMD), 4th grade German (778 250 AMD).

Manmar Director Alla Harutyunyan told Hetq that the company printed books in the amount specified by the ministry and knew nothing about how the ministry derived those amounts.

Edit Print signed a over 62.8 million AMD contract with the ministry.

11 million went to books not needed by schools.

Company director Mkrtich Karapetyan said he knew nothing about the requests made by schools and that amounts are submitted by the ministry. Karapetyan said the ministry also provides a list as to how many books are to be sent to each province.

Spika publishers got a contract to print 3955 more copies of a Yezidi language textbook than requested.

Each book cost 4,250 AMD, for a total of 16.8 million AMD.

Company spokesman Arevshat Avagyan told Hetq that even this quantity wasn’t enough and that the number was based on an old questionnaire. He said that every year Yezidi Union President Aziz Tamoyan deals with the paperwork.

Arevik publishers was paid over 44 million million AMD to print textbooks for grades 1-4.

While schools had requested 19 805 copies of the English 4 textbook, the company printed 21 081.

The difference amounted to 1,658 million AMD. Company director Sabet Hovhannisyan said that she never receives school requests, just ministry orders for each book.

Zangak 97 received over 277 million AMD book print order from the ministry.

4.7 million AMD was for books over the amount requested by schools.

An additional 18.9 million AMD went to print books not even requested by schools. Hetq was unable to reach the company director for clarification.