Interior Ministry identifies individual behind leak of personal footage of Georgian MP
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs has identified a Georgian citizen as the individual who might have been responsible for the recent leak of private footage of Georgian MP Eka Beselia.
Investigators said the accused, D.A. is currently imprisoned in Armenia for murder.
Through cooperation with Facebook administration the MIA has found out that he was registered on Facebook under the name of Buba Lomtatidze and has released personal footage for several times in January.
D.A. has left Georgia with his wife in November, 2016. As a result of cooperation between the Georgian and Armenian law enforcers, a mobile phone was found as evidence in his cell,” MIA said today.
Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested 17 people in total regarding the personal footage case after the statement of Georgian Dream ruling party MP Eka Beselia, who said on 28 January that footage of her personal life recorded under the United National Movement leadership had gone viral.
Three out of 17 detained were sentenced to imprisonment, 14 released on bail.
Recording, storing and release of the footage related to an individual's personal life is a crime which is punishable by imprisonment from four to eight years.
Four individuals detained back in February 2019 for the possession and distribution of the personal footage of MP Eka Beselia, have been released on bail after the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to the court.
The Georgian Interior Ministry is very likely to request help from foreign partners to investigate leak of a private life footage, featuring Georgian Dream MP Eka Beslia.
Zurab Solomonashvili who was sentenced to imprisonment is accused in uploading the footage on YouTube. Other seven person were accused in spreading the footage via social network and messaging apps.
One has been detained for uploading intimate private footage on YouTube after the statement of Georgian Dream ruling party MP Eka Beselia, who said on 28 January that footage of her personal life recorded under the United National Movement leadership had gone viral. The individual has acknowledged his guilt in the matter.
Georgia Dream ruling party member Eka Beselia, who left the post of the head of the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee at the end of December, says that she is facing a moral terror as footage of her personal life has gone viral.
The Special Investigation Service of Georgia on Wednesday said it had arrested seven individuals for obtaining and releasing intimate data of victims, including a minor, and blackmailing their targets.