{"id":304670,"date":"2020-07-13T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T07:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epress.am\/?p=304670"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:51:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T07:51:31","slug":"armenias-largest-casino-stripped-of-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2020\/07\/13\/armenias-largest-casino-stripped-of-license.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s Largest Casino Stripped of License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance of Armenia has stripped &#8220;Shangri La&#8221; Casino of its license. &#8220;Shangri La&#8221; belongs to prominent oligarch Gagik Tsarukyan&#8217;s family, head of the &#8220;Prosperous Armenia&#8221; party.<\/p>\n<p>On July 8, the Finance Ministry&#8217;s Committee Licensing Gambling Games, Lotteries and Casinos stripped the license of &#8220;Onira Club&#8221; CJSC on the grounds that the company did not pay the official state duty for the third quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><i>&#8220;Shangri La&#8221; casino is operated by &#8220;Onira Club&#8221; CJSC part of &#8220;Multi Group Concern&#8221; owned by Tsarukyan family.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The decision comes after investigation by the National Security Service of Armenia <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2020\/06\/14\/national-security-service-searches-tsarukyans-mansion-illegal-casino-vote-buying-and-fraud-investigated.html\">found many irregularities<\/a><\/span> in relation to the operation of &#8220;Shangri La&#8221; as a consequence of which the state was defrauded in significant amounts of revenues.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shangri La&#8221; casino is operated by &#8220;Onira Club&#8221; CJSC part of &#8220;Multi Group Concern&#8221; owned by Tsarukyan family. The Ministry of Finance of Armenia has stripped &#8220;Shangri La&#8221; Casino of its license.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,66047],"tags":[60279,79099,73642,78244,79377,79376,79378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}