Armenia`s premier proposes deputy head of RA Investigative Committee  to post of Anti-Corruption Committee Chairman 

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan proposes appointing Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee Artur Nahapetyan to the post of Chairman of the  Anti-Corruption Committee. Pashinyan wrote about this on social  networks.

Earlier it became known that three candidates passed the threshold  for the competition for the post of Chairman of the Anti-Corruption  Committee: Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee Artur  Nahapetyan, Head of the Department for Coordination of the Work of  Inspection Bodies Petros Martirosyan and Senior Prosecutor for Cases  of Confiscation of Illegally Originated Property of the Prosecutor  General's Office Gevorg Kocharyan.

According to Pashinyan, over the past few days he has held meetings  with each of the three candidates

<Following the discussions, I decided to propose to the government  the candidacy of Artur Nahapetyan, who scored the highest points  during the competition stage both in general and in exemplary  behavior, for appointment to the post of Chairman of the  Anti-Corruption Committee>, the Prime Minister wrote.

The position of the head of the Anti-Corruption Committee, created  since the end of 2021, has been vacant since November 2024, when  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on the first chairman of the  committee, Sasun Khachatryan, to resign. In November 2024, the Office  of the Prime Minister of Armenia announced a competition for the  participation of two civil society representatives in the competition  committee for the selection of candidates for the Anti-Corruption  Committee. Based on the results of the first stage, the competition  committee did not support the candidacy of Rafael Yeritsyan, Head of  the Main Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the  National Security Service, who was the only one in the competition.  In the second stage, 5 candidates applied for the position of  Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee