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In 2025, 53.4% of completed criminal proceedings were investigated within a period of up to 2 months, and AMD 21 billion 458 million were transferred to the Unified Account of Recovered Funds under criminal proceedings: Anna Vardapetyan

29/04/2026

In 2025, 41,553 criminal proceedings were completed (in 2024 — 38,058), including 14,608 — with indictments against 16,194 persons were submitted to court (in 2024 — 11,801 criminal proceedings against 13,179 persons), 61 — were submitted to court with motions on applying compulsory medical measures (in 2024 — 45), 26,884 — were terminated (in 2024 — 26,212), whereof 16,416 — (in 2024 — 17,813) on the grounds defined by point 1 of part 1 of Article 13 Criminal Procedure Code. This was stated today at the National Assembly of the RA by the Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan, who also informed that in 2025 the number of criminal proceedings submitted to court exceeds the 2024 indicator by 2,823 or 23.8%.

 

Let us recall that RA Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan, in accordance with the constitutional law “Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly,” today presented to the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of the RA the report on the activities of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Armenia for 2025, which was submitted to the National Assembly of the RA on March 31, 2026 and published on the official website of the Prosecutor’s Office.

 

According to Anna Vardapetyan, during 2025, 53.4% of completed criminal proceedings (in 2024 — 42.1%) were investigated within up to 2 months, 17.1% (in 2024 — 21.5%) — up to 4 months, 10% (in 2024 — 15%) — up to 6 months, 10.5% (in 2024 — 11.9%) — up to 1 year, 9% (in 2024 — 9.5%) — for more than 1 year. “Thus, in 2025, 3,495 or 9.2% more criminal proceedings were completed than in 2024, including 2,807 or 23.8% more criminal proceedings were submitted to court with indictments,” emphasized the RA Prosecutor General.

 

According to the Prosecutor General, the trend of reducing the duration of preliminary investigations observed in recent years continued in 2025. In particular, in 2025, the preliminary investigation in 19.5% of completed criminal proceedings lasted more than 6 months, which is 4% less than the corresponding indicator of 2023 and 1.9% less than the indicator of 2024. At the same time, more than half of the criminal proceedings completed in 2025 — 53.4% — were investigated within up to 2 months, which exceeds the corresponding indicator of 2024 by 11.3%.

 

According to Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan, in criminal proceedings, from the date of launch — from December 5, 2024 to December 31, 2025 — AMD 21,458,058,668 were transferred to the Unified Account of Recovered Funds. AMD 18,437,786,846 were paid to the Unified Account of the Taxpayer. Thus, a total of AMD 39,895,845,514 were paid to the Unified Account of Recovered Funds and the Unified Account of the Taxpayer.