Samvel Aleksanyan, a Republican Party of Armenia MP running for reelection in the April 2 election, is probably best known as the owner of the Yerevan City chain of supermarkets in Armenia.
It appears the eight individuals, all reporters, are suspected of having distributed photos and videos to the press of Ogün Samast, the 17-year-old who assassinated Dink, at a Samsun police station after having been arrested.
Taxpayers in Armenia just might be miffed to know that in 2016 the government spent 1.6 billion AMD (US$3.3 million) to operate and maintain 1,071 automobiles used by various state agencies.
Artur Baghdasaryan, president of the Armenian Renaissance party and a former secretary of the National Security Council, seems to have suffered a bout of amnesia when filling out his financial disclosure, to be filed with the Central Electoral Commission, as a candidate for Armenia’s new parliament that will be decided based on the April 2 election.