Tsarukyan: there has never been such a shameful situation in Armenia (video)
25.09.2020,
15:29
There has never been such a shameful situation in Armenia as it is now, the leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan, charged with vote buying in the past elections, said on Friday to journalists as a local court was considering a petition of the National Security Service to arrest him.
YEREVAN, September 25. /ARKA. There has never been such a shameful situation in Armenia as it is now, the leader of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan, charged with vote buying in the past elections, said on Friday to journalists as a local court was considering a petition of the National Security Service to arrest him.
Tsarukyan blamed the government for failing all socio-economic sectors, arguing that people have been brought to the brink of poverty. 'They are losing their property," he said.
Tsarukyan called on representatives of the ruling My Step bloc to go out into the streets, go around the villages and see that people are in a desperate situation.
"People are standing in front of the government building, people go on hunger strike, sleep in front of banks, because they have no way out - they are on the verge of collapse. Arresting me is not a way out option," he said.
Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) and the Investigative Committee have launched several criminal cases, which involve Tsarukyan and his supporters. Several companies affiliated with Tsarukyan, who is one of the richest businessmen in Armenia, are accused of illegal entrepreneurial activity, vote buying, falsification of documents and fraud with land plots, abuse of office in the Kotayk regional administration.
On June 14, the NSS officers searched Tsarukyan's mansion in the Arinj community (Kotayk region), then he was summoned twice for interrogation. Tsarukyan denies the charges as fabricated.
On June 16, the Armenian parliament voted to back a petition of the Prosecutor General's Office to deprive Tsarukyan of his parliamentary immunity and imprison him. On June 21, a lower court rejected the prosecutor's request to arrest him.
Gagik Tsarukyan has repeatedly said that the criminal cases brought against him and his associates are all fabricated and politically motivated. According to him, the reason is his criticism of the current government of Armenia, which is terrorizing its opponents." -0-
Tsarukyan blamed the government for failing all socio-economic sectors, arguing that people have been brought to the brink of poverty. 'They are losing their property," he said.
Tsarukyan called on representatives of the ruling My Step bloc to go out into the streets, go around the villages and see that people are in a desperate situation.
"People are standing in front of the government building, people go on hunger strike, sleep in front of banks, because they have no way out - they are on the verge of collapse. Arresting me is not a way out option," he said.
Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) and the Investigative Committee have launched several criminal cases, which involve Tsarukyan and his supporters. Several companies affiliated with Tsarukyan, who is one of the richest businessmen in Armenia, are accused of illegal entrepreneurial activity, vote buying, falsification of documents and fraud with land plots, abuse of office in the Kotayk regional administration.
On June 14, the NSS officers searched Tsarukyan's mansion in the Arinj community (Kotayk region), then he was summoned twice for interrogation. Tsarukyan denies the charges as fabricated.
On June 16, the Armenian parliament voted to back a petition of the Prosecutor General's Office to deprive Tsarukyan of his parliamentary immunity and imprison him. On June 21, a lower court rejected the prosecutor's request to arrest him.
Gagik Tsarukyan has repeatedly said that the criminal cases brought against him and his associates are all fabricated and politically motivated. According to him, the reason is his criticism of the current government of Armenia, which is terrorizing its opponents." -0-
