Ex-Security Council Secretary summoned to be questioned

The former Secretary of Georgia’s National Security Council, Giga Bokeria, has been summoned to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office to be questioned.

In today’s statement, the Office said Bokeria had been summoned as a witness in the case of misappropriation of a large amount of money allocated from the state budget, and also from the President's Reserve Fund by the National Security Council during the period when Bokeria chaired the Office.

The Prosecution said the case was classified as secret and it had been investigated by the Office’s specialist Investigative Service.

Bokeria has been summoned to appear at the Prosecutor’s Office at 3pm this afternoon.

Bokeria, an active member of opposition party United National Movement (UNM), was a Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2008. In April 2008, he transferred to the post of deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia and in November 2010, to the role of Secretary of the National Security Council. He stepped down from this post on November 15, 2013, after Giorgi Margvelashvili from the Georgian Dream Party won the Presidential election.