Corruption Prevention Commission of the Republic of Armenia

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials has summarized the outcomes of the Project launched on September 2017 with the support of the Embassy of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Republic of Armenia, which was aimed at raising the Commission’s efficiency in implementing its functions. The Project included different directions: 1. Consultancy on the reforms related to the fight against corruption, 2. Capacity building of the Armenian...

The Commission representatives - Commissioner Lilit Petrosyan and Chief Specialist of the Department of Legal Issues and Proceedings Aregnaz Chandoyan participated in the workshop on digital tools to promote and monitor public integrity on March 29 and 30 of 2018. The event was organized by The Network for Integrity in Paris under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This workshop brought together representatives and experts from...

New regulations regarding the acceptance of officio gifts by the new Law on “Public Service” have been established. The acceptance of gifts, while exercising official duties is prohibited by the law. According to the Government order, the public official, while accepting a permissible gifts should inform about it. If the amount of the gift accepted by the high-ranking official exceeds 75 thousand Armenian Drams, the latter is considered as state or community...

By the new RA Law on “Public Service”, the conflict of interest regulations will cover not only certain groups of high-ranking officials, but also larger scope of officials, including people holding state positions, heads of communities with a population of 15,000 and more, their deputies, heads of Yerevan’s administrative districts, their deputies, as well as public servants. Within the meaning of the Law, conflict of interest is a situation in which, when...

By the adoption of the RA Law on “Public Service” on 23 March of 2018, the necessary legal preconditions for the effective functioning of Corruption Prevention Commission to be established on the grounds of the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, as well as in that context for the proper application of the declaration analysis have been established. The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials had a great role in the elaboration process of the draft law, the...

In accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 33 of the Republic of Armenia

In partnership with the Commission on the Ethics of High Ranking Officials (hereinafter the Commission), the International Governance and Risk Institute (GovRisk) organized an event on March 21 at the Grand Hotel Yerevan, which aimed at presenting the outcomes of the project financed by the Embassy of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland in Armenia The project assisted the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials in implementing its functions more effectively. Her...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials, in joint partnership with the International Governance and Risk Institute of the U.K. and “Thomson Reuters Corporation”, is...

The Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Officials is participating in the meetings with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) monitoring group, which is in Armenia...

In regard to the statements “Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Armen Sargsyan, being a high-ranking official, has not submitted the annual asset and income declaration for 2013 and in other declarations submitted by him and his spouse there is no data about the received income. Meanwhile, it is obvious that he had income, at least in the form of salary for the diplomatic representative” made in the above mentioned announcement, we inform, that Armen Sargsyan,...

According to the article entitled “Assistant to Armenian President to Build Brewery and Restaurant in Arzni” published in “Hetq” online media, Elizabeth Shmavonyan, related person to the RA President’s Assistant Avetis Berberyan, failed to declare her shares in “Bitter River” LTD in her annual declarations for 2015 and 2016 respectively. According to Article 34 of the RA Law on “Public Service”, the declaration of the family member...

 The representatives of the Commission on Ethics of High-Ranking Official were in the United Kingdom on a study visit within the period of December 18-22 of 2017. The Armenian delegation, within the scope of the meetings with the anti-corruption bodies and civil society organizations initiated by the International Governance and Risk Institute of the United Kingdom, studied the best experience of the United Kingdom.  The experts of the International Governance and Risk...