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YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian government has submitted a bill for the Parliament’s discussion which proposes to create a new anti-corruption agency, Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan said at the Parliament’s session.

“The bill package proposes to create a new investigative body – an Anti-Corruption Committee, the main jurisdiction of which will be to organize and conduct inter-court criminal proceedings over alleged corruption crimes”, he said.

Appointments to the Committee, including that of the executives, will be carried out as a result of an open competition.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan