Chief Prosecutor of Georgia Otar Partskhaladze says he truly had an incident with a policeman in Germany in 2000 but no measures of compulsion were followed.
The Chief Prosecutor claims that the policeman, who later turned out to have mistaken Partskhaladze for another person who actually committed a crime, physically abused Partskhaladze in a public place.
"After talking with policemen about the incident, the court charged me for the dispute with the police. I would like to declare that because of this case, I was not deported from the country and that proves my innocence. After the incident, I have visited Germany for business and private reasons many times. I have never faced problems from the incident while entering and leaving the country, Partskhaladze said in his statement.
He also published a copy of his university diploma in order to clear up the misunderstandings about his education so people could "stop talking about this issue.
The diploma reads that Partskhaladze enrolled in the Open Humanitarian University of Georgia in 1991 and graduated from it in 1995. Partskhaladze was born in 1976. Since, according to his resume, Partskhaladze was only 19 when he graduated from the university, his opponents found it doubtful and asked him to present his diploma.
The Chief prosecutor said that "this explanation is for society and not to those people who try to discredit the Chief Prosecutions Office in order to cover their crimes.
Gigi Ugulava, who was suspended from the Tbilisi mayoral office by the court upon the prosecutions request, said on Monday evening that Otar Partskhaladze served one year and three months of a prison term in Germany after he was found guilty of robbery and theft in 2001.