In 2008 308 criminal cases were brought to the courts in Karabakh as oppose to 247 cases in 2007. Out of the 243 criminal verdicts, a total of 325 individuals were sentence, 11 being juveniles. These are figures that were presented at a press conference held today by Seyran Amiryan, President of the NKR General Jurisdictional Court of First Instance. According to the statistics he reported 34.1% of those convicted were given conditional detention, 28% were imprisoned, 34.5% received fines and 3.1% were put under arrest. In 2008, 12 women were also criminally convicted. When queeried by Hetq reporters as to the charges against these women Mr. Amiryan that one case involved murder and that the others dealt with fraud and pillferage. The Court President noted that properties confiscated by the government in criminal cases for the year totalled 23.9 million drams as compared with 9.4 million drams in 2007. Mr. Amiryan noted that in 2008 a total of 2,099 civil cases entered the court system and that 1,920 of them saw completion. As a result some 28.3 million drams entered the state coffers.