The webinar on “Selected issues of new Criminal Procedure Code of Armenia” was organised for participants from Financial Monitoring Center and Legal Department of the Central Bank of Armenia on 22 October.

In the first part of the webinar, the participants learnt about the particularities of obtaining and using the data on bank secrecy, initiation of the criminal proceedings and general overview of compulsory measures. The second part of the webinar was devoted to the discussions on undercover investigative actions as means of collecting evidence, judicial safeguards for limiting the right to property, as well as certain types of court proceedings.

The participants were welcomed by Gayane Hovhannisyan, Senior Project Office of the Council of Europe Office in Yerevan and by Astghik KARAMANUKYAN, Deputy Head, Financial Monitoring Center of the Central Bank of Armenia. Davit Melkonyan, one of the members of the Working Group, that was tasked to prepare the new Criminal Procedure Code, delivered the sessions of the webinar. 

The webinar  was organised in cooperation with the Justice Academy within the framework of the Project “Supporting the criminal justice reform and harmonising the application of the European standards in Armenia" funded within the European Union and Council of Europe Partnership for Good Governance.