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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 26, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has fired Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Gevorg Loretsyan.
Loretsyan is currently jailed in pre-trial detention on suspicion of bribery. He was arrested on December 5 along with his driver and the head of a football club.
According to preliminary information, Loretsyan is suspected in taking a bribe from the supplying company to support the latter in a tender for supplying the ministry with sports equipment.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan