60 percent of respondents consider the Prosecutor’s Office of Armenia to be completely or partially corrupt. This was stated by Anush Hakobyan, a legal expert of the “Transparency International” anti-corruption center, during the presentation of the report on the activities of the RA Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the authors of the report, the respondents rated the independence of the prosecutor’s office 77.7 percent, giving 14 out of 17 points. At the same time, significant problems were noted, including the high threshold for the selection of the Prosecutor General, the lack of competitiveness, open competition and the involvement of experts. Thus, the acting General Prosecutor in 2022 elected only by representatives of the ruling party. the process was not open enough and was under political influence. Along with that, the grounds for early termination of the powers of the Prosecutor General and his deputies are unclear. Although the law prohibits the use of powers for political purposes, control mechanisms are lacking, and the risks of the perception of interdependence between the prosecutor’s office and the authorities remain. From the point of view of the independence of the prosecution, the provision according to which the government can change the funding without an inquiry is also controversial.
The authors of the report also documented the problems of accountability of the data on confiscation of property, which do not provide insight into the entire chain of cases. There are no independent supervisory commissions, and the existing mechanisms are formal in nature. The quality of internal audit is limited.
Only 4.7 percent of the respondents know about the anti-corruption activities of the prosecutor’s office. 60 percent believe that the prosecutor’s office is completely or partially corrupt. In general, access to the prosecutor’s office is low for citizens. There is no hotline, no anonymous reports and feedback. Statistics show that only a quarter of applicants are ready to sign the message, which also indicates a lack of confidence.
Another problematic area is the low rate of convictions in cases against high-ranking officials, against the background of the overall high rate of convictions. There are no statistics and available information about this at all, all data is extracted from other sources.
As for confiscation of property, in 2024 the amount was about 556 billion drams. However, this is only a quarter of the total figure. Corruption cases in 2024 the indicator was about 13 percent, which in 2021 (9 percent) has increased, but still remains low.
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