Over 60 PMs and judges fined for irregular 2018 asset declarations
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The Civil Service Bureau of Georgia has fined 66 members of parliament and judges in civil service for irregularities in their annual asset declarations, docking part of their salaries and issuing warnings.
The state agency inspected 60 MP declarations submitted over the past year, giving "negative" assessment to 59 due to various inconsistencies or missing information, the Georgian Public Broadcaster reported on Monday.
Fines of 20 percent of their monthly salaries have been placed on the offending lawmakers for the violations in declarations, which serve to publicly reflect property owned by civil servants.
The Bureau also considered declarations by 14 judges, finding seven of the submitted forms unsatisfactory and earning the same penalty for the offenders from various courts in Tbilisi and beyond.
Two other judges were warned by the agency for lesser violations of "non-substantial" essence, GBP said.
The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating claims Bakradze concealed £261,757 (754,700 GEL) at the 2014 Asset Deceleration of Public Officials when he was supposed to reveal his assets.
Local news agency Pia.ge revealed the United National Movement (UNM) MP concealed £261,757 (754,700 GEL) at the 2014 Asset Declaration of Public Officials when he was supposed to reveal his assets.
Georgia’s former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili lost billions of dollars last year, however he is still the country’s wealthiest man and owns property all over the world.
The Civil Service Bureau of Georgia has published monitoring results of the asset declarations of public officials carried out in 2019, according to which 63 percent of the declarations contained violations due to misstating income and also the undeclared real income of family members.
Transparency International (TI) Georgia reports that the public asset declarations of six public officials of the Government of Adjara, subordinate bodies and the Supreme Council were not filed correctly in 2019-2020.