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The executive body makes amendments to the Law on Anti-Corruption Committee in order to ensure the normal activity of the RA Anti-Corruption Committee.

According to the RA Deputy Minister of Justice Yeranuhi Tumanyants, in order to ensure the process of recovery of the damages caused to the state and society as a result of crime, including the return of money obtained through criminal means in a short period of time as well as to ensure the proper execution of the investigative action related to the seizure of property, the draft proposes to create a legal basis for the Anti-Corruption Committee to have a deposit account in the future.

It is proposed to stop the activity of the Tender Committee formed to select the first staff of the Anti-Corruption Committee after filling 60% of the vacant positions as a result of filling the subdivision of the Committee performing operative-investigative functions and autonomous positions.

Technical amendments were made to the draft.

The Committee Chair Vladimir Vardanyan presented a number of proposals related to the initiative, which, according to the key rapporteur, will be taken into account from the first to the second reading.

In his co-report, the deputy Trdat Sargsyan welcomed the initiative and proposed to endorse it.

The bill on Making Addenda and Amendments to the Law on Anti-Corruption Committee authored by the Government was debated at the sitting of the NA standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs held on September 2 and endorsed.

The debates of the bills on Making Amendments and Addenda to the Law on Academy of Justice authored by the Government, on Making Addenda to the Law of the Republic of Armenia on Compulsory Enforcement of Judicial Acts, on Making Amendments and Addenda to the Law on Compulsory Enforcement of Judicial Acts and the package on Making Addenda and Amendments to the Law on Mediation and the related drafts were postponed up to two months because of the absence of the authors.