The Chairman of the RA Investigative Committee Artur Poghosyan presented the report on Investigative Committee’s activity to the National Assembly, according to the Article 8 of the RA Law “On the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia”.

Before presenting the statistical data, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee referred to the instructions and orders issued by him during 2025, aimed at addressing a number of issues related to the organization of work in the relevant sectors, ensuring the proper conduct and improvement of the effectiveness of preliminary investigations, enhancing investigators’ professional knowledge and working skills, and completing criminal proceedings within a reasonable timeframe.

Particularly, by Order N 77-L of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, amendments were made to the order approving the criteria for the evaluation and rewarding of persons holding autonomous positions, pursuant to which criminal proceedings concerning serious and particularly serious crimes, as well as corruption-related and economic crimes, concluded through procedural resolutions, were established as a priority in the procedure for evaluating investigators’ work.

Another important internal legal act was adopted on April 11, 2025, through Instruction N 106-A, which concerns the submission of weekly reports on investigators’ daily work and the preparation of daily records reflecting what specific investigative or procedural actions an investigator carried out during the day within a particular criminal proceeding, as well as their duration. This makes it possible to analyze investigators’ workload and level of engagement.
Increase in completed criminal proceedings

During the speech, Artur Poghosyan referred to the increase in criminal proceedings under investigation, resolved during the reporting period, and concluded through procedural resolutions.

Particularly, the number of the criminal proceedings investigated in the reporting period has increased by 5.590 or 6.5%, ((90.931 criminal proceedings in 2025, compared to 85.341), the number of the resolved criminal proceedings has increased by 6.483 or 10.2% (69.694 criminal proceedings of 90.931 have been resolved compared to 63.211 in the previous year), and the number of criminal proceedings with procedural resolutions has increased by 2.825 or 23.8%, (14.650 of 41.761 completed criminal proceedings on 15.533 individuals with the bill of indictment were sent to court, compared to 11.825 criminal proceedings on 12.805 individuals in the previous year).   

Increase in investigators’ productivity

The productivity has made 76.6%, compared to 74.1% in the previous year; namely it has increased by 2.5%.

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee noted that alongside the increase in criminal proceedings, the average workload per investigator has also increased, reaching 142 criminal proceedings (compared to 132 in 2024).

Decrease in detention motions

Referring to the motions on applying detention as a pretrial measure, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee noted that the number has decreased. 

Particularly, 3.063 motions on applying detention as a pretrial measure were submitted (compared to 3.095 in 2024), 2.181 of which were sufficed fully, 578 - partially, 304 were rejected. 

In 2025, 16․294 individuals had the status of accused persons, 13.262 individuals in 2024; that is, by 3․032 individuals, or 22.8% more. Detention was applied as a pretrial measure against 18.7% of the accused, in 2024 - against 23.3%, that is, the cases of applying detention as a pretrial measure decreased by 4.6%.

Recovery of pecuniary damage caused by crime

Attaching importance to the work carried out by the Investigative Committee in the direction of recovery of caused damages, Artur Poghosyan noted that in 2025, an unprecedented increase was recorded in the amounts of recovered funds. Particularly, a total of 47 billion 129 million 552 thousand AMD of pecuniary damage caused within completed and ongoing criminal proceedings has been recovered, which exceeds the  indicator of the previous year by 8 billion 41 million 225 thousand AMD (39 billion 118 million 327 thousand AMD in 2024).

In addition, ban was imposed to property worth 1 billion 294 million 194 thousand AMD, and funds in the amount of 11 billion 696 million 13 thousand AMD, in total amount of 12 billion 990 million 207 thousand AMD. 

No murder case was recorded in the Armed Forces

Referring to the cases related to military service, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee emphasized that murder cases related to service were not recorded (5 cases, 5 individuals in 2024), no murders committed by the adversary were recorded either, (3 cases, 4 individuals in 2024). No cases of violations related to the operation or use of transport or combat vehicles in connection with service duties, (2 cases, 5 dead individuals in 2024), and cases of violations of the rules governing the flights, preparation, or operation of military aircraft (1 case, 2 dead individuals) were recorded either.

Corruption-related crimes

In 2025 643 criminal proceedings regarding corruption-related crimes were investigated (1.215 proceedings in 2024), 55 of which on 145 individuals with the bill of indictment were sent to court (62 proceedings on 134 individuals in 2024), 105 were terminated (245 in 2024), 193 criminal proceedings were sent to other structures, among them subdivisions of the Investigative Committee (295 in 2024), 53 were combined (147 in 2024), 57 were registered as ones within which procedural and evidentiary actions were conducted (55 in 2024), 180 were transferred to 2026 ( 471 in 2025).
 
Emphasizing the importance of a consistent approach aimed at identifying and eliminating circumstances contributing to the commission of crimes, Artur Poghosyan noted that investigators had submitted 744 motions for that purpose, and within criminal proceedings initiated in relation to crimes committed by minors, 62 motions were sent to guardianship and trusteeship authorities, educational institutions, local self-government bodies, and subdivisions of the Police of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs.