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“EcoIravunq” NGO (“EcoRight”) has sent a letter to Public Prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan on crime commission, signed by NGO Chairman Arthur Grigoryan. The letter particularly says, “On 27 November 2012 Mego Gold Company organized public hearings in Meliq Village, Aragatsots Region, on the construction project of the third tailing dump for the disposition of wastes of Tukhmanuk mine it develops. The project mentions that the tails contain the following chemical compounds, SiO2 – 46,23%; AL2O3 – 10,81%; MgO – 5,17% ; TiO2 – 0,82 %; CaO –6,41%; MnO – 0,15%; Fe2O3 – 6,4%; FeO -3,62%, but the project doesn’t say a word about heavy metals. The Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies conducted laboratory analysis, which says that the tails contain arsenic, cadmium and lead. The divergence of the data with the project causes to suspect that the company and Lernametalurgiakan Institute intentionally misled the public by concealing the composition of the tails and their impact on the community and people’s health. The aforementioned facts point out the existing deviations of mine development from the confirmed project, which may contain the features of Articles 281 and 284 of the Criminal Code of Armenia. We think that criminal investigation needs to be carried out to reveal the creditability of the information presented in the project and to reveal to what extent the company and Lernametalurgiakan Institute intended to mislead public with this information, to what extent the activities of Tukhmanuk mine development deviates from the confirmed project and whether there are features of Articles 281 and 284 of the Criminal Code of Armenia.”
March 12, 2013 at 14:21