Leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party and businessman Gagik Tsarukyan is facing a new public criminal prosecution for tax evasion, as reported by his lawyer Emin Khachatryan during a press briefing:
According to him, the case is related to the Yerevan Ararat brandy-wine and vodka factory. The Investigative Committee announced the arrest of the factory director the day before:
"This is a more absurd case because I believe everyone knows that Mr. Tsarukyan has handed over his businesses to management since 2003, when he was elected as a member of the National Assembly, and has had no connection to the management of those businesses to this day," noted the lawyer:
Gagik Tsarukyan himself stated back in 2019 that he does not hold any position in any of his founded commercial organizations and does not personally participate in the management of any of them. According to Tsarukyan, they have been handed over to fiduciary management, and his activities comply with the law.
Yesterday, Gagik Tsarukyan was at the Investigative Committee until late evening; he was brought in for questioning for the third time from the isolation facility of the National Security Service. According to the lawyer, two confrontations took place:
"Continuation of the previous confrontation, additional confrontation, and confrontations with two brothers from the Islamic Republic of Iran," said Khachatryan:
The prosecution had previously suspended the charges against Gagik Tsarukyan for tax evasion in particularly large amounts, which were brought two days after the elections, as reported by the lawyer of the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party, Yerem Sargsyan, "on the grounds of illegality":
Currently detained Gagik Tsarukyan is also accused of committing particularly large-scale fraud and money laundering:
