Gagik Tsarukian, the leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), could be stripped of his parliament seat after being accused by a anti-corruption state body of illegally engaging in entrepreneurial activity.
A court in Yerevan ordered on Monday the release of another opposition figure arrested on coup charges at the weekend.
Artur Vanetsian, a former National Security Service (NSS) director leading an opposition party, was released from custody late on Sunday despite being charged with plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and overthrow Armenia’s government.
Opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian was arrested yesterday on suspicion of organizing a rally in violation of the law, his lawyer Yerem Sargsian wrote on Facebook on Thursday.
Former director of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) Artur Vanetsian, who currently leads the opposition Homeland party, has been detained, his party says.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said that Baku is ready to halt hostilities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh if Armenia accepts a framework peace accord put forward by the United States, Russia and France.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading the opposition Prosperous Armenia (BHK), was released on bail on Thursday almost one month after being arrested on charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Armenia has accused Azerbaijani troops of executing two ethnic Armenian prisoners of war captured during the ongoing fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Amnesty International has condemned what it described as the apparent use by the Azerbaijani army of cluster bombs in the shelling of civilian areas in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian Defense Ministry has called for the creation of a nationwide militia that would reinforce Armenia’s armed forces in times of war.
A key witness in the criminal case against opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian has denied that the money he received from the tycoon ahead of the 2017 parliamentary elections was meant for vote buying.
Robert Nazarian, Armenia’s former chief utility regulator, strongly denied corruption charges brought against him on Friday one day after his arrest.
Ruben Hayrapetian, a once influential businessman linked to Armenia’s former leadership and prosecuted on a string of criminal charges, has been a Russian citizen since 2003, prosecutors in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
A court in Yerevan on Monday refused to allow a law-enforcement agency to arrest the city’s former deputy mayor indicted in an ongoing criminal investigation into Ruben Hayrapetian, a wealthy businessman linked to Armenia’s former leadership.
A senior judge has been nominated by his colleagues as another candidate to replace one of the three members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court who were controversially dismissed in June.
A lawyer for Ruben Hayrapetian said on Thursday that Russian law-enforcement authorities have effectively refused to extradite the wealthy businessman linked to Armenia’s former leadership and prosecuted on a string of criminal charges.
A government body has revoked the operating license of a company managing Armenia’s largest casino owned by embattled businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals overturned Wednesday a lower court’s refusal to sanction the arrest of Gagik Tsarukian, the indicted leader of the main opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK).
A court in Yerevan refused on Monday to allow investigators to arrest Mikael Minasian, former President Serzh Sarkisian’s fugitive son-in-law prosecuted on corruption charges denied by him.
Prosecutors have formally asked the Court of Cassation to overturn a lower court’s June 18 decision to release Armenia’s indicted former President Robert Kocharian from prison on bail.
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