During a meeting yesterday in Yerevan of the Anti-Corruption Policy Council, Corruption Prevention Commission (CPC) Chairperson Haykuhi Haroutunyan announced that her office checked the background of 47 people scheduled to be appointed to public office in 2020.

Those checked included prosecutors, judges, candidates for judge of the Constitutional Court, candidates for the Supreme Judicial Council. 

The findings were favorable for 26, favorable with some reservations for 16, and negative for four. No finding was issued for 1 candidate.

The CPC, established in 2019, is part of the Pashinyan government’s Anti-Corruption Strategy and Action Plan for 2019-2022.

Both were supported by the EU/CoE Partnership for Good Governance Project on “Strengthening institutional capacities to fight and prevent corruption in Armenia”.