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    Emil Lazarian
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Armenian investigators probed 10,000 more cases in 2021 compared to previous year

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 11:38,

YEREVAN, APRIL 22, ARMENPRESS. 44,751 criminal cases were investigated in 2021 by all investigative agencies, 10,000 more than in the previous year, the Prosecutor-General Artur Davtyan told lawmakers at a parliamentary committee hearing on the prosecution’s report.

In 2021, 1698 people were investigated for corruption crimes, which is 300 more than in 2020. “Nearly 600 of these 1698 people were officials,” Davtyan said.

During the year 433 people were handed over to courts for corruption crimes.

“As of yearend, the damages to the state discovered under the corruption-related ongoing criminal cases stood at 443 billion drams. Only in 2021, 7 billion drams in damages were recovered during investigations,” he said.

“…In the first quarter of this year alone we have recovered 19 billion drams in damages to the state. This proves that criminal cases that were instituted long ago are reaching resolution,” Davtyan said, noting that corruption-related probes require a lengthy process.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS