ArmInfo. The leader of the Tsarukyan bloc, deputy businessman Gagik Tsarukyan says that neither he nor his entourage ever opposed the will of the people, but on the contrary always supported him in all aspirations. Tsarukyan stated this in an interview with journalists, answering the question about his possible involvement in the events of March 1, 2008, when 10 people were killed in a clash between law enforcement and demonstrators. "Anyone who spreads rumors about my involvement or involvement in these events is an immoral person, Tsarukyan was always with the people and supported him." If I participated in all this, then let me be publicly shot, "Tsarukyan said.
Asked whether the businessman is concerned about being at the center of the scandal amid recent revelations, the "heroes" of which are big businessmen and well-known politicians, the deputy said: "For the last 10 years the authorized structures have been doing what they are trying to find in my enterprises but if they were not discovered earlier, there is no reason to fear this even now. "To the journalists' observation that Tsarukyan used to be" friends "with the authorities, he was not" touched ", the businessman remarked:" If this is so, then poch in 2015 639 Tsarukyan's associates were arrested, and people in masks with machine guns checked my structures for more than a year and a half. What kind of collusion can there be? "Answering the question about possible consolidation in the ruling bloc after the upcoming parliamentary elections, Tsarukyan noted that time will tell. On the same question about whom he will cooperate with before the upcoming elections - second president Robert Kocharian or the prime minister Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the businessman answered: "The time will come, we will decide. I do not understand what are we talking about? Today we are cooperating with the government in a "very warm atmosphere". If there are conflicts between political forces, we quickly solve them, " Tsarukyan stressed.