The Armenian lawmaker, who was victimized by blackmailers, is Tigran Urikhanyan, according to ArmInfo's sources.
It was reported earlier on Wednesday that 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 the director of Analitik.am demanded 300,000 AMD monthly, otherwise, she threatened to keep publishing false data about the lawmaker and his family. The source says that after the money was handed at a cafe in Nalbandyan Street in Yerevan, 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.