ArmInfo. On the eve of late evening, an incident occurred with the participation of the Chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia, the head of the Tsarukyan block Gagik Tsarukyan and representatives of the Boxing Federation of Armenia.
The incident occurred in Tsaroukyan's "Olimpavan", during a meeting of the leadership of the NOC with boxers. As the source told ArmInfo, who attended this meeting, the incident began with a verbal squabble between Tsaroukyan who criticized the work of the Federation and its leadership and the father of the boxing world champion in junior 2012, Nikolai Arutyunov, Vyacheslav Arutyunov, who dared to defend Tsaroukyan against the leadership of the Federation, in particular, its head of deputy Arthur Gevorgyan. The verbal dispute turned into melee, but the Tsaroukyan's "retinue" quickly suppressed the brave man who was taken to the hospital with various fractures.
Today, it became known from sources in the law enforcement bodies of ArmInfo that in fact the head of Tsaroukyan's guard, the scandalously known Edo (Eduard Babayan), was detained, and the secretary of the National Olympic Committee, the Minister of Emergency Situations Hrachya Rostomyan was summoned for questioning.
As the source told ArmInfo, Tsaroukyan is now trying to get the Federation of Sport to his hands, replacing his chapter, as this is the only sport organization, except for the Football Federation, in fact acting de facto on its own. According to the source, on the eve of the parliamentary elections Tsaroukyan tries to enlist the support of the entire sports world, as one of the levers of a successful election campaign was already deprived of his government by adopting a law on charity, which in fact limits the possibility of distributing pre-election bribes under the guise of charitable activities.
Initially, Tsarukyan intended to head the boxing Federation of the criminal authority Don Pipo (Arthur Asatryan), but after his arrest, the cards mingled, and now the NOC is trying to postpone the election of the Federation head appointed on July 5 in order to be able to find a new candidate for this fast.
To this end, the Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Levon Vahradyan, who de facto submits to Tsarukyan, began collecting signatures among the boxers in order to postpone election day.