29 Facts About Gagik Tsarukyan

Gagik Tsarukyan owns various large-scale businesses and is believed to be one of the richest men in Armenia.

Gagik Tsarukyan is the president of Armenia's National Olympic Committee, being reelected on December 4,2008.

Gagik Tsarukyan was born on 25 November 1956 in the village of Arinj to Nikolay and Roza Tsarukyan.

Gagik Tsarukyan studied at Arinj village school, where he met his future wife Javahir, who was studying at that same school.

Gagik Tsarukyan was distinguished with physical abilities which influenced his higher education choices.

Gagik Tsarukyan graduated from the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture in 1989.

Gagik Tsarukyan was involved in sports, mainly boxing, wrestling and arm wrestling.

Gagik Tsarukyan was a world champion in arm-wrestling, winning a world championship in 1996 and the European championship in 1998.

Gagik Tsarukyan is accused of depriving ownership rights of foreign investors in Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory.

Since 2003, Gagik Tsarukyan has been a RA National Assembly deputy.

Gagik Tsarukyan was re-elected to the National Assembly in the May 2007 parliamentary election from District 28 as a Prosperous Armenia candidate.

In 1995, Gagik Tsarukyan founded and presided over Multi Group Concern.

Gagik Tsarukyan graduated from the Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture in 1989, as a teacher of physical education and sports, as well as a wrestling coach.

Gagik Tsarukyan got 3rd place in Men's Masters Right Hand 110+ kg category in the 1996 WAF World Championships, which took place in Virginia Beach, USA.

Gagik Tsarukyan is the current president of the Armenian Olympic Committee, since 2005.

Armenian athletes under the leadership of Gagik Tsarukyan showed an unprecedented result during the 2008 Summer Olympics, returning with 6 bronze medals.

On 4 December 2008 Gagik Tsarukyan was unanimously reelected as the Armenian Olympic Committee president by the general assembly of the committee.

Gagik Tsarukyan has been engaged in politics since the 2000s.

Three years later during third convocation of National Assembly elections which took place on May 25,2003, Gagik Tsarukyan was elected as NA deputy from 42 electoral district.

From 2003 till 2007, Gagik Tsarukyan was a member of RA NA Defense, as well as National Security and Interior Affairs standing committee.

Gagik Tsarukyan is the chairman of the newly elected PAP Political council.

Prosperous Armenia Party has 27 deputies in Armenia's National Assembly and Prosperous Armenia faction, led by Gagik Tsarukyan, is the second in NA by its number of representatives.

On 14 June 2020, Gagik Tsarukyan's house was searched and he was questioned for over 8 hours by the National Security Service.

Shortly after revoking his immunity, Gagik Tsarukyan has been charged with bribery and corruption, including buying 17,000 votes for his party during parliamentary elections held in April 2017.

In 2011, Gagik Tsarukyan acquired the Kotayk Brewery to become the sole owner of the factory.

In 2002, Gagik Tsarukyan was awarded with Grigor Lousavorich order by the Supreme Patriarch of all Armenians Garegin II, highly evaluating Mr Gagik Tsarukyan's activity towards church construction.

In 2003, upon the decree determined by the then-president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, the president of Armenian National Olympic Committee Gagik Tsarukyan, who had his great input in the development of RA sports, was honored with Movses Khorenatsi medal.

On 17 September 2008, upon the decree determined by then-president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, Gagik Tsarukyan was honored with "Services provided to the motherland" first rank medal for the great input he had in the development of RA sports and physical education.

On 11 May 2009, Gagik Tsarukyan was awarded with "European of the Year" by the International European movement.