In 2020, the Department for Confiscation of Property of Illicit Origin of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia launched inquest into the assets belonging to 214 persons. This is what Minister of Justice of Armenia Rustam Badasyan said during today’s discussion on the report on implementation of the 2020 Action Plan of the Government held as part of the session of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly.

Badasyan recalled that on April 16, 2020 the National Assembly adopted amendments to the Law on Civil Forfeiture of Illegal Assets and related laws.

“The Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia opened the Department for Confiscation of Property of Illicit Origin on September 3, 2020. Between the period of the Department’s establishment and December 31, 2020, the Department received materials of 201 criminal cases regarding 430 entities with possible illegal assets,” Badasyan informed, adding that inquest has been launched into the assets of 214 persons and that the process is ongoing.