TBILISI, DFWatch–A former government official in Georgia has pleaded guilty in the murder of bank employee Sandro Girgvliani in 2006.
The 28-year old Girgvliani was brutally murdered after a scuffle at a cafe in Tbilisi, during a birthday party for an Interior Ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ukraine has extradited a former Georgian Interior Ministry official to Georgia.
Oleg Melnikov was brought to Georgia Saturday morning. He was detained ten months ago in Ukraine after being subject to an Interpol search.
Melnikov is charged with
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Church, the Patriarchate, has suspended a priest who recently claimed that the Prosecutor’s Office pressured him to give testimony against former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia.
Mikael Botkoveli, head of the press office at
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian man is in hospital in a serious condition after being beaten while in detention awaiting his extradition to his home country.
The man, Davit Chkhitunidze, was detained at Athens airport on August 14 as he was preparing to fly to Turkey,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Law enforcers are considering another charge against former Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia and want to question him about the murder of Sandro Girgvliani in 2006.
Tbilisi Prosecutor Maya Mtsariashvili told journalists that in the course of the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia Monday introduced new charges against a former head of the domestic intelligence agency Kudi that deals with one of the most controversial murder cases in the country’s history.
Data Akhalaia, former chairman
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have detained a fifth person in one of the most controversial cases during the previous government, Sandro Girgvliani’s murder.
The Prosecutor’s Office says it has been unknown until quite recently that Tamaz Kokiashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s chief prosecutor and justice minister claim that the long time former interior minister Vano Merabishvili was implicated in the killing of Sandro Girgvliani, a controversial murder committed by the police in 2006.
Chief Prosecutor Archil
TBILISI, DFWatch–Saakashvili says the Girgvliani case is ‘a black stain’ for him which he feels partly responsible for.
After the televised state to the nation speech, which eventually ended up being held at his residence, the president invited journalists from
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has questioned the wife of the former interior minister regarding a case of beating of policemen.
This is a case in which former officials in the Interior Ministry have been charged.
Tako Salakaia, wife of