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Editorial: IRTC-ARMO: A criminal story of corruption

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During the first seven months of 2017, three special tax investigative teams visited one of the capital’s bookstores. In a surprise visit, the special tax investigation team, composed of five members — all men — found that a member of the staff was not registered for social security payments. The staff member in question, a second-year university student tried to explain to the special tax investigation inspectors that he still did not have a job and was on a short tryout period to see if he wanted to do the part time job, which combines selling books and serving coffee…

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