The result and efficiency of investigation of corruption-related crimes in 2023 have been summed up in the subdivisions of the RA Investigative Committee, taking into consideration that the RA Investigative Committee continues investigating similar proceedings on numerous cases.

Pursuant to it, 1326 criminal proceedings have been investigated in the RA Investigative Committee on corruption-related crimes in the previous year, which is by 108 or 8% more the number of proceedings on similar cases investigated in 2022.

In general, under conditions of overload in the RA IC subdivisions the number of proceedings sent to court has significantly increased in 2023. Particularly, 133 of the above-mentioned 1326 proceedings have been completed with the bill of indictment and on 354 persons have been sent to court, whereas in 2022 76 of 1218 proceedings on 122 persons have been sent to court. That is, the number of the proceedings sent to court in 2023 has increased by about 75% as compared with the previous year, and the number of the defendants within the cases – by 190%.

Preliminary investigation of 214 proceedings has been terminated 176 of which on rehabilitative, 38 on non-rehabilitative bases. Procedural actions within 80 proceedings have been completed. 194 have been sent to another body, 106 proceedings have been combined, 599 have been transferred to 2024.

Particularly, the criminal proceedings on corruption-related crimes investigated in the RA Investigative Committee in 2023 have mainly referred to:

leasing or alienating state or community-owned property, including property not subject to privatization, through various criminal schemes, arbitrary seizure of plots of land,

disbursement of unearned income to employees in educational, community, or government institutions or misappropriation of such amounts,

abuses in the processes of assigning pensions in separate territorial subdivisions of the social security service, among them receiving, giving bribe, or bribery mediation,

embezzlement by abuse of official position, official forgery and document forgery in educational, state and community institutions,

engagement in illegal business activities by officials,

official abuses and negligence in the process of land allocations in cemeteries,

money laundering and so on.

In the course of the year, special consistency has been demonstrated in the disclosure of apparent corruption-related crimes, especially of a schematic nature. Large-scale work has been carried out in their direction, which continued also in 2024. Among them are, in particular, the apparent abuses of the state support program for the development of intensive gardens, as well as in the processes of assigning pensions in separate territorial subdivisions of the social security service.

The total pecuniary damage caused within criminal proceedings on corruption-related crimes alone, has amounted to more than 8 billion 720 million AMD, 4 billion 320 million AMD of which has been caused to the state and communities, the rest – to legal entities and natural persons.

In 2023 totally about 1 billion AMD of the damage caused, has been restored.

In order to provide legal guarantees for the restoration of damage within criminal proceedings, a ban has been imposed to the property in the amount of 1 billion 200 million AMD.