Archpriest arrested for alleged murder plot to be questioned tomorrow
Tweet 
Share
The archpriest who was allegedly plotting the murder of a high-ranking clergy member of the Georgian Orthodox Church will be question on Monday, authorities say.
Jarji Tsiklauri, deputy head of the investigative unit under the Chief Prosecutor’s office, said that detained archpriest Giorgi Mamaladze has been exercising his right to silence since the day he was arrested on February 10.
"Since the detention day, we have offered him five times to be interrogated but he kept refusing it every time”, Tsiklauri said.
He added that Mamaladze will be offered again to be questioned tomorrow and this time it is believed that the archpriest will answer investigator’s questions. His lawyers said yesterday that the cleric is ready to give answers but it is the investigators who delay the process on purpose.
At a special press conference on February 13, the Georgian Chief Prosecutor said an archpriest was detained at Tbilisi International Airport, who intended to leave for Germany and murder a high-ranking clergy member of the Georgian Orthodox Church with the poisonous substance cyanide.
Georgian Patriarch Ilia II underwent a laparoscopic gallbladder surgery in a German clinic on the same day.
It was expected that all questions regarding the alleged murder plotting would be answered after the Patriarch’s return. However, Ilia II returned to Georgia on Monday but the details of the alleged murder plot had still not been revealed.
Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has thanked Georgian law enforcement officers for preventing a "disaster” from happening after police detained an archpriest for allegedly planning to murder a high-ranking clergyman of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Georgia’s First Deputy Chief Prosecutor Mamuka Vasadze says that details related to an alleged murder plot against a high-ranking clergyman of the Georgian Orthodox Church will be revealed after Patriarch Ilia II returns to Georgia.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili attended a meeting today at the Patriarchate where clergymen and Patriarch Ilia II gathered to discuss the case of the murder plot against a high-ranking member of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Police have detained an archpriest who was allegedly plotting the murder of a high-ranking clergy member of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia today released the intermediate results of its ongoing investigation into an alleged plot to murder a high-ranking clergy member of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
The archpriest who was detained for allegedly plotting the murder of a high-ranking clergy member of the Georgian Orthodox Church has been found guilty.
Archbishop Jacob, who has been one of the most influential figures in the Georgian Patriarchate, has quit the position of Patriarch Ilia II’s assistant and the chief of the Economic and Financial Council of the Patriarchate amid political turmoil around him.