Armenia’s Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan today visited the new administrative building allocated to the Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office for Cases of Civil Forfeiture of Illegal Assets, was introduced to the conditions for work and held a working consultation with Deputy Prosecutor General Srbuhi Galyan, who is coordinating the sector, as well as prosecutors and economists of the Department.

The course of proceedings for studies on cases of civil forfeiture of illegal assets, the current issues and the ways to solve them were discussed during the consultation. The participants of the consultation particularly touched upon evaluation of the costs of assets that have to be studied, clarification of the cash flows and mechanisms of persons, use of modern technological solutions for analysis and receipt of necessary information from other corresponding bodies that is required and important for proper implementation of the process of civil forfeiture of illegal assets.

Prosecutor General Davtyan stated that the Prosecutor General’s Office, namely the Department, has assumed the commitment to return the illegal assets that are of pivotal significance for the state and society and are unprecedented in Armenia in terms of nature and volumes, as well as to return them to their rightful owner, that is, the State, and restore social justice.

Despite the tremendous workload of the Department, Davtyan assigned the Department’s prosecutors to perform their functions even more consistently and actively.