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01/04/2026
In accordance with part 2 of Article 5 of the Law “On the Prosecutor’s Office” the Prosecutor General’s Office has published on its official website the report on the activities of the Prosecutor’s Office for 2025.
According to the report, in 2025 a total of 41,553 criminal proceedings were completed (38,058 in 2024), whereof 14,608 cases involving 16,194 individuals were submitted to court with indictments (11,801 criminal proceedings involving 13,179 individuals in 2024), 61 were submitted to court with motions on applying compulsory medical measures (45 in 2024), and 26,884 were terminated (26,212 in 2024), whereof 16,416 (17,813 in 2024) were terminated on the grounds defined by point 1 part 1 of Article 13 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The number of criminal proceedings submitted to court in 2025 exceeds the 2024 figure by 2,823 or 23.8%.
During 2025, 53.4% of completed criminal proceedings (42.1% in 2024) were investigated within up to 2 months, 17.1% (21.5% in 2024) within up to 4 months, 10% (15% in 2024) within up to 6 months, 10.5% (11.9% in 2024) within up to 1 year and 9% (9.5% in 2024) over a period of more than 1 year. Thus, in 2025, 3,495 more criminal proceedings were completed than in 2024, or 9.2% more, including 2,807 more criminal proceedings submitted to court with indictments or 23.8% more.
The trend of reducing the duration of preliminary investigations observed in recent years continued in 2025 as well. In particular, in 2025, the preliminary investigation of 19.5% of criminal proceedings lasted more than 6 months, which is 4% lower than the corresponding figure for 2023 and 1.9% lower than that of 2024. At the same time, more than half of the criminal proceedings completed in 2025—53.4%—were investigated within a period of up to 2 months, which exceeds the corresponding figure for 2024 by 11.3%.
From the date of launch—December 5, 2024 until December 31, 2025, a total of AMD 21,458,058,668 was transferred to the Unified Account of Recovered Funds in the framework of criminal proceedings. An amount of AMD 18,437,786,846 was paid into the Unified Account of the Taxpayer. Thus, a total of AMD 39,895,845,514 was paid into the Unified Account of Recovered Funds and the Unified Account of the Taxpayer.
In 2025, 2,559 motions were submitted to the Courts of First Instance to apply detention as a measure of restraint against accused persons, whereof 1,566 (61.2%) were fully granted, 672 (26.3%) were partially granted, and 321 (12.5%) were rejected (in 2024: 2,282 motions, whereof 1,581 or 69.3% were fully granted, 432 or 18.9% were partially granted, and 269 or 11.8% were rejected). During 2023–2025, a decreasing trend was recorded both in the number of submitted motions and in the proportion of motions actually granted by the court, in comparison with the number of individuals involved as accused. Compared to the average indicators of the last 8 years, in 2025 the proportion of motions submitted to the court for applying detention as a measure of restraint decreased by 2.5% relative to the total number of defendants.