Armen Bosnakhyan: Armenian society treats corruption as normal phenomenon

PanARMENIAN.Net - Prosecutor of the Corruption and Organized Crime Department at the Office of RA Prosecutor General Armen Bosnakhyan said that state’s will and policy should play a decisive role in combating corruption.

The struggle against corruption should be carried out at all levels of authorities, Bosnakhyan said during Yerevan-Moscow-Tbilisi space bridge on Society against Corruption.

Besides, according to Bosnakhyan, representatives of small and medium business treat corruption as a normal phenomenon. “Disapproval of this problem should be displayed in assistance to law enforcers’ activity. Naturally, there is another problem – lack of trust towards law enforcers. However, in my opinion, it can be overcome as well,” he said.

Chairman of the Public Anti-Corruption Committee, member of the Russian State Duma, member of its Committee on Federation and Regional Policy Affairs, Anton Belyakov said that almost all former countries of the USSR have a common problem that hampers struggle against corruption – societies lack an ideology.

According to him, even if a struggle is carried out against corruption, it does not refer to “big fishes.”