During the 2018 Armenian parliamentary election, Prosperous Armenia obtained 8.26% of the popular vote, coming in second and becoming the largest opposition party in parliament.
[3][4][5] In July 2020, he was formally charged with bribery and corruption, right after the National Assembly voted for his immunity from prosecution as a member of parliament to be revoked.
Roza is an accountant, managing the research-and-production center of "Multi Agro" LLC,[7] and at the same time, is the honorable chairman of Prosperous Armenia Party Women council.
According to Article 37 of the Criminal Code of the Armenian SSR, Tsarukyan was sentenced to a combined total of 7 years in prison in a correctional labour colony.
Following this election he became head of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary faction and a member of the Committee on the Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs in June 2007.
From 1990-1992, he was the executive director of "Armenia" company and in 1992, he was involved in animal husbandry activities, establishing a dairy production enterprise in Arinj village near Abovyan.
[18] In 2002, the Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory was acquired by the Multi Group Concern, which invested around US$50 million[citation needed]-equivalent Armenian drams for the modernization and constructional works, in obtainment of new line of bottling and oak barrels.
[3] Armenian athletes under the leadership of Gagik Tsarukyan showed an unprecedented result during the 2008 Summer Olympics, returning with 6 bronze medals.
Another statement accused of Tsarukyan's gambling firms of financial irregularities costing over 29 billion drams ($60 million USD) in damages to the state.
A third case was announced saying that the administration of Arinj village had sold 7.5 hectares of community land to another Tsarukyan company illegally.
[34] On June 15, law enforcement authorities requested that the National Assembly strip Gagik Tsarukyan of his parliamentary immunity so he could be prosecuted.
[35] Shortly after revoking his immunity, Tsarukyan has been charged with bribery and corruption, including buying 17,000 votes for his party during parliamentary elections held in April 2017.
[43] Ignoring objections from the Armenian Apostolic Church, archeologists and many other people,[44] Armenia’s government has allowed Tsarukyan to erect a giant statue of Jesus Christ on a mountain near Yerevan.
With the government's confirmation[45] for the location, the construction process has started[40] with the opening ceremony, with the participation of the Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan.
[47] Tsarukyan's Multi Group Concern holding company founded in 1995, currently includes more than 40 large and small businesses.
In contrast, another smaller Ararat-based plant (which smelts gold ore) paid more taxes despite standing idle during much of 2007 due to a change of ownership.
[50] Despite being lucrative, the vast majority of Tsarukyan's Multi Group businesses were not included in the list of the country's leading corporate taxpayers released by the Armenian government in early 2005.
[12] 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.
[52] On September 17, 2008, upon the decree determined by then-president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, 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.