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The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) nominated the candidacies of Karen Aghajanyan, Liza Grigoryan and Karen Tumanyan for the for vacant position of judge of judicial staff of the Anti-Corruption Chamber of the Court of Cassation investigating civil cases.

As the NA Vice President Hakob Arshakyan informed, the parliament shall elect a candidate for judge of the Anti-Corruption Chamber of the Court of Cassation.

The deputies debated the issue at May 24 NA sitting.

The Acting Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council Vigen Kocharyan voiced Karen Aghajanyan’s biographical data and activity. In 1998, the candidate graduated from the Faculty of law of Yerevan Gladzor Management University, in 2016 – the Master’s degree of the same Faculty. Karen Aghajanyan has 23 years of length of service, at present, the Director of N 1 Attorney Office LLC.

The candidate noted that during his long-year working activity he presented hundreds of claims, complaints, applications, the part of them served a basis also for the change and improvement of legal practice, including the Constitutional Court. The rapporteur underlined that he made proposals of a number of legislative amendments, took part in the revision of laws, permanently improve the professional skills.

Speaking about corruption, Karen Aghajanyan noted that the reasons for its causes of occurrence are numerous: among them the legislative incompleteness, the availability of the difficult to understand the sub-legislative acts, the citizens’ hard jurisprudence, as well as their passiveness conditioned by distrust towards the anti-corruption system. “We should find strength for eradicating that defective phenomena from our society,” the rapporteur expressed an opinion and considered necessary to add the implementation of the educational and preventive functions in the fight against corruption. It was noted that during many years our country did not take any tangible step aimed at the prevention of corruption. “And only after non-violent, velvet revolution of 2018 the Government developed distinct steps and began taking them,” the candidate underlined.

According to Karen Aghajanyan, at present, the most negative factor is the overloading of the courts in the judicial system, which has also negative impact on the quality of the judicial acts. In the solution of the problems in system the candidate highlights the increase of the judges’ numbers, the introduction of electronic justice, etc.

The candidate assured that in case of being elected he will invest his full potential, the experience of many years, keeping high the given trust and will act only for the sake of the Republic of Armenia.

The parliament will continue the debate of the issue at May 25 NA sitting.