"Zhoghovurd" daily writes:
"High-ranking state positions are filled with the personnel of the RA Prosecutor's Office. One of the candidates of the Corruption Prevention Commission is a prosecutor dismissed from his position by the order of General Prosecutor Anna Vardapetyan.
As is known, there are two candidates for the position of the most important independent body. The candidacies of Armen Marukhyan and Narine Azaryan were proposed for the vacant position of the Corruption Prevention Commission. not random people at all.
On May 3 of this year, at the session of the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly, when Chief Prosecutor Anna Vardapetyan was presenting the annual report, MP Artsvik Minasyan raised a question about Armen Ashotyan's case, the prosecutor replied that "905,194,706 drams were caused to the state in the criminal case against Armen Ashotyan." property damage. The damage caused by the accused has been fully recovered." Meanwhile, Ashotyan's lawyers stated that it is slander that the court's decision dated 16.04.2024 the decision confirmed that no damage was caused to the state in this case, neither Armen Ashotyan nor any other accused have "recovered" any "damage", because the defense side considers the case to be fabricated and does not accept the accusation.
ArmLur.am revealed that after these statements, Anna Vardapetyan, upon returning to work, instructed Armen Marukhyan, the head of the RA General Prosecutor's Office, to write an application for dismissal and leave. And now that official, Armen Marukhyan, wants to go to Corruption prevention committee According to the information received by "Zhoghovurd" daily newspaper, there were quite a few professional participants in the competition.
For example, Arsen Manukyan, the former assistant of Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, but he did not pass the competition, and this circumstance was very suspicious for the staff of the Corruption Prevention Commission, because he presented himself well prepared.
But the rejection of professionals and the involvement of potentially manageable people in an independent body only proves one thing. The Corruption Prevention Commission is trying to turn Pashinyan's government into a manageable department attached to the Government with manageable personnel, so that Mariam Galstyan, the interim head of the commission, can be easily elected as the head of the commission by the members in the future.
Let's add that, according to the press, Mariam Galstyan is a close friend of MP Arusyak Julhakyan and Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan. Meanwhile, the candidate should be an unknown person with no personal connections."
