YEREVAN. – The ruling coalition’s Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader Gagik Tsarukyan is the richest among the leaders of the political parties running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, Hayots Ashkharh daily writes.

“His income for the past one year totaled over AMD 6 billion [approx. US$ 15,285,285], $60 million, and €40 million. The PAP leader declared eight vehicles, six buildings, and nine plots of land in different regions of Armenia. [Also,] Tsarukyan owns shares in more than thirty companies. 

The [opposition bloc Armenian National Congress] ANC leader [and First President] Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s income for last year was from his pension and the lease of a plot of land belonging to him. They made up close to AMD 26 million [approx. $ 66,236]. The former President has one apartment, one automobile, a plot of land, and three public spaces,” Hayots Ashkharh writes.