Head of Anti-Corruption Committee appointed 

ArmInfo. On March 20, the Armenian government appointed Deputy Head of the Investigative Committee Artur Nahapetyan as Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee.

Recall that the position of the head of the Anti-Corruption  Committee, created at 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 the  National Security Service for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption,  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.

Three candidates have 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 Confiscation of Illegally  Originated Property of the Prosecutor General's Office Gevorg  Kocharyan.

On March 17, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on social media  that he had decided on a candidate for the post of Chairman of the  Anti-Corruption Committee. , - the  Prime Minister wrote on social media.