Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian on Thursday challenged two leading members of the opposition Bright Armenia Party (LHK) to substantiate their allegations that his administration has accepted dubious cash donations from wealthy businesspeople.
Yerevan Mayor Hayk Marutian criticized a state anti-corruption body on Wednesday for deciding to investigate allegations about his conflict of interest.
An opposition alliance represented in Yerevan’s municipal council seemed on the brink of collapse on Tuesday due to growing differences between its members affiliated with two political parties.
Police raided on Friday the home of Ruben Hayrapetian, a controversial businessman who had close ties to Armenia’s former leadership, and companies belonging to him in an apparent criminal investigation into his commercial activities.
Yerevan’s Mayor Hayk Marutian has strongly denied issuing construction permits or giving other favors to businesspeople who have donated garbage trucks and other equipment to the municipal administration.
Bowing to pressure from the opposition and media, Yerevan’s municipal administration named on Thursday private entities which it says have donated 21 garbage trucks to it in recent months.
Yerevan’s Mayor Hayk Marutian on Tuesday refused to reveal the names of wealthy individuals who have donated garbage trucks to the municipal administration and sparked corruption allegations by opposition members of the city council.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has issued a stark warning to “all those who dare threaten lawmakers” working on a bill that the government says is aimed at uprooting “widespread criminal subcultures” in Armenia.
The head of Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) declined to say on Wednesday whether it will bring criminal charges against Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian recommended by another law-enforcement body.
The presumed leader of a clandestine militant group that had allegedly plotted to overthrow Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian has been released from prison on bail.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has refused to drop corruption charges brought against a senior government official who actively participated in last year’s “Velvet Revolution.”
Health Minister Arsen Torosian cut short a news conference on Tuesday after it was gatecrashed by one of his former aides who accused him of mismanagement and corruption.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sought to reassure residents of the resort town of Jermuk and two villages located close to the Amulsar gold deposit in southeastern Armenia as he visited their communities on Friday.
An Armenian court issued has an arrest warrant for the former head of a Yerevan hospital related to former President Serzh Sarkisian after a law-enforcement body brought more corruption charges against him.
Parts of Yerevan and other Armenian regions were left without electricity on Wednesday following what authorities described as an “accident” in the national power grid.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals overturned on Tuesday a lower court’s May 18 decision to release former President Robert Kocharian from prison pending the outcome of his trial stemming from the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The Yerevan mayor’s office revealed on Friday that it has asked the Armenian government to borrow at least $100 million for a complete overhaul of the city’s deteriorating system of public transport.
Yerevan’s Mayor Hayk Marutian shelved on Wednesday his controversial plans to sharply raise his and his top subordinates’ salaries.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Wednesday pledged to investigate the death of a man which followed his arrest and interrogation by police in Yerevan.
A parliament deputy who was until recently Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian’s chief bodyguard went on trial on Thursday on charges of violent assault.
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