ArmInfo. Ambassador of Russia to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin met with members of Prosperous Armenia Party, Vice-Speaker of the RA Parliament Vahe Enfiajyan and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Regional and Eurasian Integration Issues of the National Assembly, Mikayel Melkumyan.
According to the press service of the Russian diplomatic mission, the meeting was held at the Russian Embassy. "During the conversation, the parties discussed the development of Russian-Armenian inter- parliamentary relations, the assistance to Russia in the fight against coronavirus infection provided to Armenia both in a bilateral format and within the framework of general integration associations. The parliamentarians also shared their vision of some aspects of the host country's internal political agenda", it is noted in the message of the diplomatic mission.
As ArmInfo previously reported, on June 14 the National Security Service conducted surches in the mansion of the oligarch and leader of the Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan, after which he was summoned for interrogation by the NSS. Law enforcement authorities suspect him of illegal entrepreneurial activity in the field of gambling, as a result of which the state was damaged in the amount of $ 60 million, as well as in bribery of voters in 2017 and illegal appropriation of land in the village of Arinj, Kotayk region. On June 16, the Armenian Parliament approved the motion of the Prosecutor General of Armenia Artak Davtyan to deprive Tsarukyan of his parliamentary immunity and bring him as the accused in a criminal case, up to and including imprisonment. The head of the PAP said that he continues to consider the criminal case against him a political persecution, and that he has no connection with the management of the companies attributed to him.
