TBILISI, September 11 – Former Georgian prosecutor general Otar Partskhaladze is facing a wave of criticism in Georgia after declaring the creation of a volunteer military unit to fight on Russia’s side in Ukraine. Partskhaladze, who now uses the name Otar Romanov-Partskhaladze, said the new unit is called Georgievsky, a reference to the 1783 Treaty … Read more
TBILISI, September 8 – Georgia’s former chief prosecutor Otar Romanov-Partskhaladze says he has formed a volunteer unit in Russia that will fight on Moscow’s side in the war against Ukraine. Partskhaladze told Russian state news agency TASS on Monday that he had personally decided to join the war effort and had created an international volunteer … Read more
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new video of a public auditor pointing a pistol in a bar last December further undermined his claim that a recent fight with an ex-prosecutor was corruption related.
The video surfaced on the Internet on Wednesday, and shows state auditor Lasha Tordia
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Ministry of Internal Affairs released a surveillance video and witness testimony on Monday which appeared to undermine claims by the country’s top public auditor that a recent bar fight was connected to a corruption probe.
But the low resolution
TBILISI, DFWatch–The head of Georgia’s state audit office refused to be questioned by police on Monday, after alleging that a former chief prosecutor attacked him at a bar Friday night.
Lasha Tordia excused himself on the grounds of his poor health condition after Friday’s incident
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili appointed a new chief prosecutor on Monday. The country has been without one for almost a month.
The new chief prosecutor is Giorgi Badashvili, a 32 year old graduate from Georgian Technical
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prison Ministry staff have questioned former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili about his statement about being taken from his cell and threatened by the chief prosecutor.
Merabishvili said in December that he was brought out of his cell and taken
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Chief Prosecutor of Georgia has resigned, nearly a week after he was targeted by the National Movement party for a robbery conviction in Germany in 2001.
Otar Partskhaladze Monday evening issued a statement saying that due to the questions which
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement Party in Georgia has exposed that the Chief Prosecutor was convicted of robbery in Germany in 2001.
Otar Partskhaladze confirms that he had certain incident with police in Germany, but claims that he was not subject to coercive