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Ex-minister questioned again about fake passport

Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili greeting supporters as he exits the general prosecutor's building Friday after five hours of questioning. (Photo: Irakli Gedenidze/Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili was Friday questioned a second time about his attempt to leave the country with a fake passport November 30.

The interior ministry has made public several witness statements seeming to confirm that

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Fake passports were common in Georgia's interior ministry

Giorgi Lortkipanidze admitted he had used this fake passport, and said many others who worked in the interior ministry were issued similar.

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s interior ministry is investigating one more attempt to jump the border with a fake passport.

The ministry says it discovered a suspicious passport issued in the name of Gocha Tsereteli, but the photo shows former Deputy Interior

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Ex-minister questioned about forged passport

Vano Merabishvili waiting to be questioned at the police December 1, 2012. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili was Saturday interrogated. He did not comment except saying it’s a pity that the prime minister is using the interior ministry as a tool of repression against the opposition.

The interior ministry

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Ex-minister wanted to fly to Armenia with forged passport

The fake passport, with the name and signature of one Levan Maisuradze, but a photo of Vano Merabishvili. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The former interior minister Vano Merabishvili is under investigation for having tried to board a flight from Tbilisi go Yerevan Friday with a forged passport.

Merabishvili was traveling together with President Saakashvili and others.

According

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