In 2017, the Department of Crimes Against Corruption and Economic Activities of the General Prosecutor’s Office of RA studied and summarized and 2018 state of damage caused to the state by crime and its restoration in the first semesters.

The study revealed that in 2017 During the first half of the year, the total damage caused to the state by crime in the criminal cases initiated by the competent authorities of the Republic of Armenia amounted to 6,418,070,374 AMD, of which 4,964,448,287 AMD was recovered. Moreover, only AMD 2,800,000,000 of the above was recovered in 1 criminal case investigated in the investigative department of the RA SRC regarding tax evasion.

2018 in the same period, the total damage caused to the state by criminal cases initiated by the competent authorities of the Republic of Armenia for the cases of crimes revealed amounted to AMD 19,263,712,425, or about three times more than in the first half of the previous year. Of the mentioned cases, 3,608,730,955 drams of damage was revealed to the investigation department of the RA National Security Service, 3,180,510,112 drams to the investigation department of the RA State Revenue Committee, 7,056,230,606 drams to the RA Special Investigation Service, and the remaining 5,418,240,752 drams to the cases investigated or under investigation by the RA Investigation Committee. with a preliminary examination.

In 2018, from the revealed total loss during the first half of the year, 2,512,749,268 AMD was already recovered, also with the active and consistent use of prosecutorial intervention mechanisms. And a loss of around 6,922,245,802 drams, with the available funds, is guaranteed by the necessary criminal procedure tools, that is, by the seizure of the existing currency or foreign currency, and the other part by the seizure of immovable and movable property, as well as financial accounts.

Moreover, the damage caused to the state by the criminal cases investigated in the cases of illegal enrichment, particularly large tax evasion and abuse of official position revealed in the months of May-June of this year is about 42 percent of the total damage revealed during the semester, 8,019,019,462 AMD.