2 detained for coercion, offering bribe to late district election commission head released on bail
Denying the charges their lawyers claimed the case has been politically motivated as Akaki Khuskivadze and Akaki Kobaladze were detained after they openly spoke about election fraud. Photo: Mtavari TV
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Akaki Khuskivadze and Akaki Kobaladze, charged with offering a bribe and coercing the late head of Isani No. 5 district election commission (DEC) Tevdore Gobejishvili have each been released on 10,000 GEL bail.
Georgian police detained Khuskivadze and Kobaladze on November 8 - the day after Gobejishvili was found dead in his apartment in Tbilisi.
The interior ministry then reported that the two individuals had offered the late DEC chair $50,000 on behalf of opposition United National Movement (UNM) party if he would demonstratively quit in front of media and speak about the election fraud.
Tbilisi City Court has claimed that Khuskivadze and Kobaladze threatened Gobejishvili with imprisonment and physical abuse of his family members if he refused to make the statement. However, stating that they were friends with Gobejishvili they both deny the charges.
Tbilisi City Court has sent Akaki Khuskivadze and Akaki Kobaladze to pre-trial detention for bribing and coercing the late head of Isani No.5 district Election Commission Tevdore Gobejishvili.
Georgian police have detained two individuals for offering a bribe to the head of the Isani No. 5 district election commission (DEC) on behalf of a political political party, asking him to step down from his position and claim that the recent parliamentary elections were rigged.
Police have detained an employee of Tbilisi City Hall for bribe taking earlier today. The investigation shows that the detained individual promised foreign businessmen to cut down healthy trees in the vicinity of a plot which they were going to buy in the nearest future, as they were going to build a road near the plot.