Director of Analitik.am Ani Hovhannisyan, assistant to the director and the manager of the press club have been detained on suspicion of blackmailing.
The press office of the Police reports that on May 2 one of the members of the Armenian National Assembly told the General Department for Combating Organised Crime, Armenian Police, that the director of Analitik.am regularly posts false data about him and his family, as well as about his activities as a lawmaker. Following the publication of the compromising materials, the MP has met with the director of the website for several times. The MP says that the director demanded 300,000 AMD monthly, otherwise, she threatened to keep publishing such materials.
Afterwards, the lawmaker's representative continued the negotiations with the director of the website. They agreed that the required money was to be handed by the 5th day of each month to the director or to her assistant.
The source says that after the money was handed to the recipient, the assistant to the Analitik.am director, the lawmaker and the manager of the press club were detained on May 3. Later, the director of the website was also detained. Investigation is underway.