YEREVAN. – Opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader, MP, and business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan has been at the National Security Service (NSS) for about six hours now. Despite the calls by the police, his supporters and PAP members do not leave the area.

The situation outside the NSS is getting tense recurrently. Police are apprehending those who have assembled there and are forcibly taking to various police stations. According to the latest police data, the number of those that were apprehended until a few hours ago was one hundred, but even after that, dozens of people were apprehended.

It is not known in what status Tsarukyan is being kept at the NSS for this long. According to PAP members, he is being questioned.

There are media reports that a political decision has been made to arrest him, but there is no official information in this regard.

After its search at Gagik Tsarukyan's mansion in the morning, the NSS issued three statements regarding the criminal cases that have been launched and involving him.