MP to Prosecutor General: Is there a gasoline mafia in Armenia or  not?

ArmInfo.Artur Khachatryan, a member of the RA National Assembly from the opposition "Armenia" faction, has demanded that Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan provide information on the existence of a gasoline mafia in the country, as recently stated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

"Ultimately, this statement came directly from Pashinyan, and I must  ask whether your department provided him with such information. I  would like to know if criminal cases have been launched against this  mafia, so we can understand the basis of Nikol Pashinyan's claims,"  the MP emphasized.

In response, Anna Vardapetyan noted that it was impossible to answer  the question framed "in the spirit of a movie script." She pointed to  existing criminal cases involving former state officials. "You're  trying to provoke me into naming names, but they're well-known and  regularly published. Criminal cases are underway involving former  officials and their relatives who siphoned funds out of Armenia with  the help of foreign accomplices," she said.

Recall, on April 15, while presenting the government's report,  Pashinyan stated that the resumption of oil product supplies from  Azerbaijan has put an end to the long-standing "gasoline mafia"  within Armenia and abroad.