At today’s meeting of the executive body, a new government program has been presented and approved, Chapter 4 is devoted entirely to the fight against corruption.

The program envisages the introduction of new mechanisms for ensuring the transparency of the activities of the public service, as well as their property and income.

“Actual public oversight for the prevention of corruption is crucial related to the activities of the first persons of the state, activities and functioning of all persons in the public service, their family members, and close relatives as defined by the RA Law on Public Service. In order to exclude their involvement in corruption, it is also necessary to implement some legislative innovations, which are particularly important,

• an observation of the possibility of introducing such a new system, according to which persons claiming to be the public official of the Republic of Armenia shall provide power of attorney to the relevant Authorized Body on their behalf, to seek and receive information on the accounts on their name in any bank and in a financial institution in the world, about flow and balance of funds since the day of their establishment, as well as on the availability of movable and, immovable property and securities in their name. and immovable property. Those who refuse to issue such power of attorney cannot be high-ranking officials.

• the introduction of a new system according to which the origin of the property, funds, equity and stocks of a senior official and affiliated persons during the term in the office, and the price of which exceeds the ten-fold of those persons’ combined wages for the last five years, must be subjected to a thorough and comprehensive investigation.

• property, income and interest declarations of officials, expansion of list of the persons subject to publication (name of donors, names of income taxpayers, location of property, etc.), ensuring efficiency of prevention and disclosure of corruption.