Armenia's Anti-Corruption Committee reveals corruption related crimes every week

YEREVAN, November 2. /ARKA/. The growing number of detected corruption cases is an indication of the effective work of the Anti-Corruption Committee, Sasun Khachatryan, head of the Committee, said on Tuesday.

According to him, the Committee investigated 1,498 criminal cases in the first nine months of 2023, up from 861 cases in the same time span of 2022.

"A total of 1,088 corruption offenses were recorded in Armenia in the first nine months of 2023, a 79.5% surge as opposed to the first 9 months of 2022," Khachatryan said at the parliamentary hearings on the draft state budget for 2024.

He said during that period, 134 cases with indictments were referred to courts, which is 97% more than in 2022; 15 people were charged with official forgery, 58 with embezzlement with the use of official position, 3 with legalization of criminal incomes, and 18 with corruption crimes.

Khachatryan noted that currently the Committee is investigating 623 criminal cases, 17-18 cases are being investigator by one investigator.

According to him, almost every week the Committee reveals new facts of corruption, involving embezzlement of large sums of money.

He said the damage caused by the cases which were referred to courts is 13.8 billion drams. Of this amount the Committee has so far recovered almost 2 billion drams in cash and property worth tens of billions of drams is arrested. -0-