ArmInfo. As of June 14, at 10:00 p.m., the RA Police detained 252 participants of the protest rally, who came to support the leader of the Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan. The RA Police Press Service reported this.
"As of 10:00 p.m., 252 people were subjected to administrative detention who did not comply with the requirements of maintaining social distance in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus and stop the rally," the police said. After drawing up the protocols, the detainees were released. Concerning some citizens, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of part 1 of article 225.1 (organization of mass riots accompanied by violence). The maximum sanction under this article provides for a two-month arrest. The police recalled that during the state of emergency declared because of the coronavirus from March 16 to July 13, mass meetings were banned.
Yesterday, the National Security Service raided the mansion of the oligarch and leader of the Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan, after which he was summoned for questioning by the NSS. Law enforcement authorities suspect him of illegal entrepreneurial activity in the field of gambling, as a result of which the state was damaged in the amount of $ 60 million, as well as in bribery of voters in 2017 and illegal appropriation of land in the village of Arinj, Kotayk region. After the interrogation, the head of the party stated that he continued to consider the criminal case against him a political persecution, and that he had no connection with the management of the companies attributed to him.