ArmInfo.Today, on June 17, the court will consider the petition of the Prosecutor General of Armenia to apply arrest as a measure of restraint against the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party and the relevant faction in the parliament, the oligarch Gagik Tsarukyan.
Late in the evening, leaving the building of the National Security Service, where the oligarch was questioned for almost 10 hours, he said that this was a trumped-up case. "We will see when the case reaches the court," Gagik Tsarukyan told reporters. He emphasized that he does not seek dividends, and those who seek for them are traitors. "There is no justification, this is a fabricated case, you will see when it will be considered in court," Gagik Tsarukyan said.
The issue was touched upon by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. On his Facebook page, he wrote that everyone is equal before the law. "There is no alternative to freedom, democracy and the rule of law in Armenia. Everyone is equal before the law," the head of the Armenian government wrote, posting a video of an operational shoot made by the National Security Service in the oligarch's mansion. He also noted that all cases of obstruction of the will of the people (and generally cases of corruption, abuse, tax evasion, etc.) should be checked in the manner prescribed by the legislation of Armenia and lead to the result provided by law.
It should be reminded that yesterday the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia granted two petitions of the General Prosecutor of the Republic of Armenia - on depriving the oligarch of parliamentary immunity and attracting him as an accused in several criminal cases.
On June 14, the National Security Service of Armenia disseminated reports of three criminal cases involving the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party. One noted that as a result of the illegal activities of Tsarukyan's companies in the gambling business, the state budget received less than $ 60 million. The second episode is related to alleged cases of the bribe being paid by the PAP during the 2017 parliamentary elections. According to the NSS, it is a matter of hundreds of millions of drams. In another criminal case, a company associated with Tsarukyan illegally appropriated land. The state suffered damage of 342 million drams.