The corruption crimes detection index has increased in 2017. More information on the statistics about it is available here. Corruption crimes are traditionally considered to be crimes of a high degree of latency.
Iravaban.net learned this from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Detection, disclosure, and justification of guilt of officials are often a complicated and require consistent, competent, planned, effective and coordinated action by the criminal prosecution authorities.
According to the above-mentioned, the increase in the number of such offenses, compared with other crimes, is positively assessed; such dynamics speak not about actually expanding the scope of these crimes, but on the effectiveness of the criminal justice campaign against them.
During 2017 serious legal, institutional and organizational reforms have been implemented which have essentially promoted in the prevention of corruption crimes, detection and enhancement of criminal prosecution.
In particular:
In order to adjust the scope of corruption crimes to the standards set by the international treaties that the RA has ratified, to improve the quality of prosecutorial supervision and criminal prosecution in criminal cases on these crimes, the RA Prosecutor General’s by Order No. 3 of 19 January, 2009, the criteria for defining the acts as corruption crimes of have been defined by the RA Criminal Code and the list of corruption offenses has been approved by the appendix to the Order, in which the crimes envisaged by Article 67 of the RA Criminal Code were included.
Accordingly, a corruption offense is a criminal offense committed with a view to obtaining a non-legitimate advantage, from a mercenary or other personal interest or interest in a group, by a particular entity, an official, or a commercial or other entity that exercises bailiffs or other managerial functions, using the opportunities provided by a person holding office position.
In addition, in order to increase the quality of prosecutorial supervision and prosecution in criminal cases on corruption-related crimes, distribution of work duties among prosecutors in the system of the Prosecutor’s Office, as well as the order of its modification and / or supplementation has been set by the order the RA Prosecutor General’s Office by Order No. 26 of 19 March, 2017 of the RA Prosecutor General.
By the above-mentioned Order, prosecutors in Yerevan and marzes were instructed with the orders of distribution of work responsibilities, to provide specialization of prosecutors at the corresponding prosecutor’s offices ed prosecutors’ prosecutors on specific types of offenses, including the offences against state power and corruption offences.
