"Hraparak" newspaper wrote:
According to the information of "Hraparak", there are a large number of vacant positions in the General Prosecutor's Office of RA, and there is a shortage of personnel, which they cannot fill, in particular, of prosecutors. After the appointment of Anna Vardapetyan as a prosecutor, internal dissatisfaction arose here. some have left, left the system, and due to the lack of employees, the remaining prosecutors are working quite hard, as they say, they don't have day and night. Most of the prosecutors who left the system were released by their own request. Some of them have moved to advocacy, they are establishing their own offices, the other part are in the private sector, they provide legal services, some even work as non-lawyers.
"Hraparak" sent a written request to the General Prosecutor's Office with the following content: "How many prosecutors were fired during 2024, how many left the prosecutor's office based on their application?" Now, how many vacancies are there for the position of prosecutor? Has a tender been announced to fill the vacant positions?" the prosecutor's office noted that the number of prosecutors is information of limited official distribution, which is why they refuse to provide such information, and they sent several links from their website regarding dismissals. In fact, the number of positions paid from the state budget and taxpayers cannot be "information subject to limited distribution" - this is simply a gross violation of the "Freedom of Information" law. To some extent, they answered our third question, noting that in order to fill the vacant positions of prosecutors in October 2024 An open competition has been announced since 10. We studied the official website of the prosecutor's office to find out how many prosecutors Anna Vardapetyan signed an order to dismiss in the last 6 months. By the order of May 29, the deputy military prosecutor Gurgen Hakobyan was dismissed from his job according to his application. In June, 2 prosecutors were dismissed, again on the same grounds, with personal appeals. Releases were made on the same basis in the following months as well. For example, in September, 3 persons were dismissed from the position of prosecutor: Vasil Sargsyan, Haykanush Avalyan and Ashot Khachatryan. in the basis of the order for their release it is written that the application of these persons was accepted as the basis.
