On March 7, 2026, an expanded session of the Prosecutor’s Office Collegium was held under the leadership of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia Anna Vardapetyan, during which the activities of the Prosecutor’s Office for 2025 were summarized.

Armen Panosyan, Head of the Department of Supervision over Legality of Pre-trial Proceedings in the RA Anti-Corruption Committee of the Prosecutor General’s Office, while presenting the work carried out by the department’s prosecutors in 2025, noted that during the reporting period, 256 cases involving 628 individuals were sent to court with indictments (compared to 159 criminal cases involving 370 individuals in 2024).

The following multi-episode, high public-interest proceedings are among the cases sent to court in 2025:

• Proceedings concerning former Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan, who also held other official positions, on charges of illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity, abuse and exceeding of official powers, and laundering particularly large amounts of property obtained through criminal means, including:

1. Exceeding official authority by transferring shares of a commercial company engaged in sand extraction to persons affiliated with him,
2. Participating in the activities of companies engaged in commercial operations in the sand extraction sector,
3. Failing to take measures regarding violations occurring in the course of commercial activities under his patronage, resulting in serious consequences,
4. Laundering financial resources obtained as a result of the alleged criminal acts by converting them into movable and immovable property.

• Criminal proceedings concerning Gagik Beglaryan, who served as Head of the Kentron Administrative District of Yerevan, Mayor of Yerevan, and held other official positions, for abusing official powers, as well as for instigating another official to abuse their authority, in order to acquire 25 real estate properties in Yerevan’s Kentron district, and later belonging to the Yerevan community, with a total value of approximately AMD 2,327,584,000; transferring 2 properties to a person affiliated with him; and, with the assistance of others, laundering the aforementioned properties obtained through criminal means in particularly large amounts.
• Criminal proceedings concerning Haykaz Baghmanyan, who held high-ranking positions in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, for illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity, laundering particularly large amounts of money obtained as a result, concealing data on property and income in submitted declarations, and failing to declare property and income in particularly large amounts.
• Proceedings concerning a judge of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction for demanding a large bribe in exchange for performing illegal actions and inaction in favor of the bribe-giver, using his official authority and position.
• Proceedings concerning a judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Armavir region for abusing official powers, causing serious consequences, and issuing a manifestly unjust judicial act.
• Proceedings concerning National Assembly member Hovik Aghazaryan for demanding and receiving a particularly large bribe in exchange for performing actions using his official authority and the influence derived from it, as well as for demanding a particularly large sum of money for using his alleged influence over another official.
• Proceedings concerning Vardan Ghukasyan, Head of the Gyumri community, for demanding a large bribe in exchange for an illegal act, as well as for committing official forgery in prior agreement with a group of officials.
• Proceedings concerning Vahagn Gevorgyan, who held the position of Head of the Abovyan community, for using official powers against the interests of the service, committing official forgery, illegally acquiring and laundering property belonging to the community in particularly large amounts.
• Proceedings concerning Diana Gasparyan, who held the position of Head of the Vagharshapat community, for, with the assistance of persons affiliated with her, using her official powers and the influence derived from them, exceeding her authority, and, in prior agreement with others, laundering particularly large amounts of money by using official powers.

During 2025, out of the total property damage caused in criminal proceedings completed at the Anti-Corruption Committee, AMD 1,642,887,000 was recovered during the reporting period.

In ongoing criminal proceedings investigated under the supervision of the department’s prosecutors, AMD 726,430,000 was recovered in 2025. It should be recalled that in 2024, AMD 477,556,000 had actually been recovered in monetary form during the preliminary investigation from the total damage caused in completed criminal proceedings. In other words, the amount recovered in corruption cases in 2025 was about four times higher than the 2024 figure.  

According to Armen Panosyan, in 2025, 106 criminal cases involving 180 individuals were completed in courts, compared to 116 criminal cases involving 242 individuals in 2024.

Of the 106 completed criminal cases, 2 concerned particularly grave crimes, 30 grave crimes, 65 crimes of medium gravity, and 9 crimes of minor gravity.

Out of the 106 completed cases, 158 individuals were convicted in 89 cases, whereof 38 were convicted of grave crimes, 108 crimes of medium gravity, and 12 crimes of minor gravity. Among them, 16 individuals were sentenced to imprisonment, 27 to fines, and 5 to other penalties. For 110 individuals, the punishment was conditionally not applied under Article 84 of the Criminal Code.