According to the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) reforms mean Anti-Corruption Council will include opposition and NGO representatives for the first time but will still be led by the Prime Minister. However, experts doubt this overhaul of the institution will give it the teeth to tackle the corruption that pervades the system. In Transparency International’s 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index, Armenia with its score 37 shared 94-99th places in the ranking table among 175 countries. According to Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anticorruption Center there has been no change and no progress in either numerical or qualitative terms in fight against corruption since 2003. Hoktanyan said Armenia’s score on the corruption index was a sure sign of a country where corruption was “serious and systemic.”

See the reporting on IWPR website.