Chairman Arthur Nahapetyan said the proceedings involved 799 defendants in January–September 2026, compared with 170 proceedings involving 431 defendants a year earlier.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee sent 286 criminal proceedings involving 799 defendants to court with indictments in January–September 2026, chairman Arthur Nahapetyan said. In the same period of 2025, it sent 170 proceedings involving 431 defendants to court.
Nahapetyan presented the figures at a session marking the investigative agency’s fifth anniversary, Armenpress said. An indictment sends allegations to court; it is not a conviction.
Committee investigators conducted preliminary investigations in 2,472 criminal proceedings in the first nine months of 2026, up from 2,061 in the same period of 2025, Nahapetyan said.
Over the agency’s first five years, it investigated 7,524 proceedings. Of those, 1,050 were sent to court with indictments against 2,481 people. It also processed 23,173 applications and reports.
Nahapetyan said approximately 327 million drams had been recovered in ongoing and completed cases. Separately, movable and immovable property worth approximately 24.3 billion drams had been seized; that figure is not the amount of money recovered.
He also said 19 land plots that had been illegally transferred had been returned to communities. He valued the plots at approximately 873 million drams in total.
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