In an interview to "Haykakan Zhamanak" daily newspaper Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center mentioned that it was no surprise for him that the law enforcement bodies refused to investigate Vizcon LLC founding director Pavel Anderson's latest scandalous allegation on giving bribes to high ranking officials. He wondered if anyone might have expected it to be investigated, also noting that if an allegation on corruption remained unanswered it was natural that the information submitted to public attention would be perceived as a confirmed fact. Thus there was a non-refuted allegation that then-Mayor of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan, his deputy Karen Davtyan and scores of judges took hundred thousands dollar worth bribes.

The more the Armenian authorities speak of their efforts on fighting corruption, the more complaints are filed on corruption cases, i.e. there is an impression that parallel with statements on fighting that vice, corruption increases. Varuzhan Hoktanyan remarked that the level of corruption in different countries of the world is described by the score of Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranges between 10 as highly clean and 0 as highly corrupt. Armenia's latest highest score was 3.0.

According to the results of various studies the index shows that there is systemic corruption in the country. The situation slowly but constantly devastated. Though the Armenian authorities developed two anti-corruption action plans and amended numerous laws, the issue remained unsettled.

"In case of systemic corruption there are two ways to fight it: by replacing the government or manifesting political will when the authorities decide for themselves that the situation is critical and find effective ways to fight corruption, as it happened in Singapore." However Varuzhan Hoktanyan is reluctant to believe that the Armenian authorities are likely to manifest political will following Singapore model. In his opinion one may expect nothing but reduction of minor administrative cases of corruption from the current regime.

For a real struggle against corruption to be waged in the country, the society should become self organized and start to press the authorities from below. The day when the Armenian residents turn into citizens the law enforcement bodies will start to implement their duties and the officials suspected of corruption will resign.