Almost 100 fired from the Chief Prosecutor’s Office in 2013

Ninety four employees were fired from the Georgian Chief Prosecutors Office in the past year.

The Chief Prosecutors office has published details of the number of newly employed and fired people and the reasons of dismissal.

From October 2012 to November 2013, when the Chief Prosecutor was Archil Kbilashvili, 202 people were hired by the Office. Among them were 153 prosecutors and 49 investigators.

In the same time period, 65 people, including 59 prosecutors and six investigators, were fired. One prosecutor resigned.

From November 2013 to December 2013, when the Chief Prosecutor was Otar Partskhaladze, the Office hired 17 new employees; nine officials, three prosecutors and five investigators. The investigators had been transferred to the Prosecutors office from the Finance Ministrys Investigative Department.

In this one month period 29 people; 17 officials and 12 prosecutors and investigators, were fired.

Of the dismissed officials, the Prosecutors Office claimed two employees had been acting officials and they had not gone through the system.

The Office claimed two other employees were undergoing in-service inspection at the General Inspection and were later dismissed based on "appropriate findings from this investigation.

Furthermore, two officials resigned on their own accord, while 11 other officials had been offered alternative posts but they refused them and resigned.

Of the 12 prosecutors and investigators, three resigned for personal reasons and one was dismissed because of the retirement age, claimed the Chief Prosecutors Office.

It also said the rest; five prosecutors and three valuable case investigators, were being investigated and were also dismissed for "appropriate findings of the General Inspection investigation.

"Moreover, we once again underline that the fired people can appeal the decision about their dismissal to the administrative board of the Tbilisi City Court, the Chief Prosecutors Office said today in a written statement.

The statement was issued by the Prosecutors Office after a number of former employees believed their reason for dismissal was unclear.