Armenia to allow electronic transfer of banking secrecy data to law  enforcement agencies 

ArmInfo.In Armenia, banking secrecy data may be transferred to law enforcement agencies electronically. At its March 18 meeting, the RA National Assembly Committee on State and Legal Affairs approved amendments to the  Criminal Code and a package of related laws submitted by the RA government.

According to Gevorg Kocharyan, RA Deputy Minister of Justice, the  process is currently carried out entirely in paper form, which  complicates and complicates criminal proceedings. Additionally, there  are issues with meeting reasonable timeframes for case review. The  legal norms proposed in the draft will allow for the process of  obtaining information containing banking and related secrets  electronically. The implementation of this process electronically is  aimed at reducing the time and resources spent processing and  preparing information, allowing the body handling the case to provide  the necessary information containing banking and related secrets  within the timeframes established by the court, thereby facilitating  compliance with the principle of reasonable timeframes for case  consideration.

However, the Deputy Minister emphasized that receiving the relevant  data electronically does not imply that information constituting  banking or related secrets can be transmitted by any electronic  means, including official or work email addresses.