According to the report on an apparent crime received from the Armenian Police in the Yerevan City Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Armenia (RA), MP candidate nominated under the first number of the Strong Armenia bloc in the regular elections to the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia on June 7, N. K. (i.e. Narek Karapetyan), having been warned about the liability established by law in case of providing false information, intentionally concealed information about having or having had foreign citizenship, namely, he submitted a false application to the Migration and Citizenship Service of Armenia stating that he was not a citizen of another country, thus concealing information about having foreign citizenship, which hinders obtaining the status of an official in Armenia. This was informed to Armenian News-NEWS.am by the Investigative Committee.

Based on the report, the Yerevan Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Armenia initiated criminal proceedings under Section 1 of Article 449 of the Criminal Code—i.e. concealing information that impedes the acquisition or retention of the status of an official. An investigation is underway, the Investigative Committee added.

NA speaker Alen Simonyan on Tuesday publicized a document and wrote: “Is Narek Karapetyan a citizen of the RF [i.e. the Russian Federation?” The document attached to the post contains data on a legal entity, in which “RF citizen” is written across the name “Narek Karapetyan.”

Narek Karapetyan responded shortly after the post: “Alen Robertovich [Simonyan], don’t do such things. I am not a citizen of Russia, I have never had any other citizenship except RA citizenship, I have lived in Russia less in my life than in England or Switzerland.”

The Central Electoral Commission of Armenia later addressed the issue, noting that it had checked the documents of Narek Karapetyan, the first candidate on the electoral list of the Strong Armenia bloc, about being only a citizen of Armenia during the registration of MP candidates.

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