For the second consecutive year, a decrease in the number of corruption related crimes has been recorded in the Republic of Armenia (2023 — 1368, 2024 — 1116, 2025 — 996). This was stated today at the National Assembly of the RA by Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan, who added that during 2025, out of 3,024 criminal proceedings examined in the proceedings of preliminary investigation bodies, 980 were completed (in 2024 — 1097), whereof 669 were terminated (in 2024 — 880), including 489 on rehabilitative grounds (in 2024 — 473), and 180 on non- rehabilitative grounds (in 2024 — 407).

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.

311 criminal proceedings concerning 772 persons (in 2024 — 217 criminal proceedings concerning 493 persons) were submitted to court with indictments. 411 criminal proceedings were merged with other criminal proceedings, and 1,329 criminal proceedings remained pending.

During 2025, 157 corruption related criminal cases were examined and completed in courts (in 2024 — 163) concerning 282 persons (in 2024 — 362), in 107 cases whereof (in 2024 — 126), 193 persons were convicted (in 2024 — 272), 27 persons (in 2024 — 37) were sentenced to imprisonment: 27 persons (in 2024 — 46) to fines, 9 persons (in 2024 — 4) to other primary punishments, the sentence was conditionally not applied to 133 persons (in 2024 — 185), and additional punishments were also applied to 13 persons (in 2024 — 17). In 32 cases, 55 persons were acquitted (in 2024 — in 11 cases, 17 persons).