Artur Nahapetyan, Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee, met with a delegation headed by Alessandro Ferranti, Ambassador of Italy to Armenia.
The delegation also included Andrea Peduto, Deputy Head of Mission of the Italian Embassy in Armenia, and Lieutenant Colonel Andrea Cilento of the Carabinieri, Regional Police Attaché for the South Caucasus, the Anti-Corruption Committee said in a press release.
Highlighting Italy's advanced experience in combating organized crime and corruption, Artur Nahapetyan stressed the need to further expand and strengthen the cooperation established under the memorandum signed between the Anti-Corruption Committee and the Italian Financial Guard (Guardia di Finanza) in 2023.
Speaking about the effective work carried out with Italian partners in the law enforcement sector in recent years, the Committee chairman expressed confidence that all the necessary prerequisites are in place to establish close cooperation ties with other Italian law enforcement agencies combating corruption and transnational crime as well.
In turn, Ambassador Alessandro Ferranti highlighted the positive results of cooperation with the Committee and emphasized the importance of appointing a police attaché of the Italian Embassy for the South Caucasus region, expressing hope that this would contribute to the further development and increased effectiveness of cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of the two countries.
The meeting also addressed opportunities to implement new training and experience-sharing programs for Anti-Corruption Committee officers, with the support of Italian partners highlighted as important in this process.
