Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan detained

Businessman and Prosperous Armenia Party leader Gagik Tsarukyan has been detained on charges of organising large-scale fraud and money laundering, the Armenian Investigative Committee said in a statement, Report informs.

According to the Investigative Committee, evidence obtained in one of the criminal proceedings being investigated by its Main Department for the Investigation of Economic Crimes and Smuggling indicates that, between 2022 and 2024, several individuals allegedly committed large-scale fraud and large-scale money laundering under the organisation of Gagik Tsarukyan.