Gyumri mayor transferred back to Yerevan-Kentron penitentiary

ArmInfo.  Arrested Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan was transferred back to the Yerevan-Kentron Penitentiary from the hospital, where he had been held since yesterday, his lawyer, Zaruhi Postanjyan, told reporters.

The previous evening, it was reported that Vardan Ghukasyan's health,  while being held at the Kentron Penitentiary in Yerevan, had sharply  deteriorated around 4:00 PM. He was taken to the St. Grigor  Lusavorich Medical Center.

As a reminder, on October 20, eight Gyumri City Hall employees, led  by Vardan Ghukasyan, were arrested on charges of large-scale bribery.  The latter was arrested on October 21 and given a two-month prison  sentence. On October 26, it was announced that Ghukasyan had been  charged with another offense: calling for the renunciation of  sovereignty for his support of joining the Union State with Russia  and Belarus.  Earlier, on October 1, in the Armenian parliament,  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Ghukasyan of vote-buying and  called his election as head of the city administration a  misunderstanding, promising to "rectify this situation."