Corruption Prevention Commission of the Republic of Armenia

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The Participants agreed to organize and jointly implement measures of mutual interest to prevent corruption and educate informed citizens. It is planned to organize meetings of the representatives of the Commission with the students and lecturers of French University in Armenia, and lectures on the issues related to the sphere of activity of the Commission.

Representatives of the Commission, the National Assembly and non-governmental organizations within the framework of the program met with representatives of a number of Romanian state institutions, including anti-corruption bodies, the National Assembly, as well as non-governmental organizations and the media.

The Commission delegation met with state institutions such as the Supreme Judicial Council, the Supreme Prosecutorial Council, the HIDAACI, as well as the OSCE Office in Albania, the EU Delegation, the Ministry of Justice, and the Helsinki Committee of Albania.

The purpose of Armenia’s public sector survey is to support the Corruption Prevention Commission and other government agencies in the comprehensive assessment of causes, patterns and consequences of corruption in Armenia’s public administration sector. The survey is led by the Corruption Prevention Commission with the support of the World Bank.

Representatives of non-financial subdivisions of the RA Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Judicial Council, the Judicial Department, the RA Prosecutor's Office and the Corruption Prevention Commission participated in the workshop.

Haykuhi Harutyunyan, the Chairwoman of the Commission, Lilith Aleksanyan and Mariam Galstyan, members of the Commission, discussed with Bertrand Venard the possible directions of further cooperation between French University and the Commission.

The expert introduced the management of the training cycle and the methods of designing questionnaires to the staff of the Education, Public Awareness programs, and Monitoring Department, as well as to the Chief Methodologist of the CPC.

"Currently, there are 115 registered parties in Armenia, some of which are not active. I think this process will lead to the dissolution of inactive parties after some time," said Aramayis Pashinyan.

“More than 7,000 declarations are being checked, which is a rather detailed process. The studies are carried out exclusively by the Commission. In all cases when the Commission concludes that there are certain inconsistencies in the property, income, interests, expenses, the property actually used by the person, the Commission initiates administrative (at the same time disciplinary proceedings) and sends the materials to the Supreme Judicial Council for a decision.”

Before getting acquainted with the main functions of the Commission, the students walked around the offices and got acquainted with the working conditions of the structural subdivisions and the process of organizing the work.

“Studies show that over the past 30 years the civil society has taken on the main burden of the implementing anti-corruption education programs in the Republic of Armenia," said Sasun Hambardzumyan.