Pashinyan’s deputy minister caught on corruption

According to the National Security Service of Armenia, Gevork Loretsyan, deputy minister of education, science, culture and sport, was taken into custody. Loretsyan is accused of bribery on a particularly large scale.

The investigation assumes that Loretsyan helped a certain supplier win tenders for the sale of sports equipment to state sports and educational institutions, Sputnik-Armenia reports.

“The detainees are under indictment, the court chose arrest as a preventive measure,” National Security Service reports.