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PM Pashinyan not satisfied with process of investigations into corruption cases

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 20:30, 6 April, 2020

YEREVAN, APRIL 6, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan is not satisfied with the process of the investigations into corruption cases, ARMENPRESS reports PM Pashinyan said during a Facebook Live, answering the question of a citizen, who asked how many corruption cases are now in court process and when the embezzlements will be confiscated.

“Recently we held a consultation and I gave clear tasks aimed at increasing the effectiveness of investigations into corruption cases’’, PM Pashinyan said, noting that they are trying to understand the objective and subjective reasons for the low effectiveness of the process. ‘’My colleagues know that if the effectiveness does not increase, we will have to make decisions of other style’’, Pashinyan said.

As refers to returned or confiscated sums, PM Pashinyan said that the issue is not only about the past or future confiscations, but is about that the state budget revenues of Armenia since 2018 have significantly increased. ‘’This is the realization of my pre-revolutionary promise, according to which state budget revenues would increase by 30-35%, while today we have an increase of 40-45%. This was possible due to fight against shadow economy, monopolies and corruption'', Pashinyan said, noting that 40 billion AMD have been returned and there are criminal cases over embezzlements amounting to 190 billion MAD, but this is not all.

Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that fight against corruption will continue in Armenia and everything will be done to maximally increase the effectiveness of this fight.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS