Tsarukyan`s lawyer denounces the "height of lawlessness" after being  summoned as a witness

ArmInfo.  Erem Sargsyan, lawyer for opposition Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik  Tsarukyan, has sharply criticized the investigation's decision to  summon him for interrogation as a witness.

 "Today at 3:00 PM, I was summoned to the Investigative Committee for  questioning as a witness in the Gagik Tsarukyan case," Erem Sargsyan  told reporters outside the building of the General Department for  Investigation of Economic Crimes and Smuggling of the Investigative  Committee of Armenia.

He clarified that the investigatory body justified his summoning for  questioning by stating  that one of the defendants in the case, an  Iranian citizen, testified that Sargsyan had been present at several  of their meetings with Tsarukyan. "I was removed from the case and  not allowed to defend Tsarukyan. This is the height of lawlessness,"  Sargsyan said.

Recall, on July 6, the PAP leader was detained and taken to the  Investigative Committee of Armenia. He is accused of organizing fraud  and money laundering on an especially large scale.