ArmInfo. The Prosecutor's  Office has launched a criminal case against Vardan Ghukasyan, a  mayoral candidate in Gyumri from the Communist Party of Armenia.   According to Armenian media, this information was reported by the  prosecutor's advisor Lusine Martirosyan.  The criminal case was  initiated based on a recording of a conversation that surfaced online  a few days prior and is attributed to Vardan Ghukasyan. In this  conversation, the mayoral candidate threatened a group of people with  consequences if they did not gather and come to him. As Martirosyan  noted, a criminal case was initiated on charges related to violence  against a person or his close relative, destruction, damage or  seizure of property through threats or blackmail, and coercion to  attend or abstain from a meeting for material gain.