Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has announced today that they have charged one of the most influential figures of the United National Movement government Erekle Kodua for abusing his official powers, accompanied by violence, regarding the high-provide case of Imedi TV.
The prosecutor’s office reported that the riot police, chaired by then head of the Special Operative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Kodua unlawfully raided the TV channel building on November 7, 2007, physically abused journalists and destroyed the property of the media outlet.
13 people were affected due to the raid and the damage inflicted to the media amounted to more than $1.2 million”, the Prosecutor’s Office stated.
Earlier, for the same case, the ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, former ministers of justice and internal affairs were also charged.
Kodua is wanted by Georgian law enforcers and Interpol.
It is not the first charge for the former official. Kodua has already been sentenced to 9 and 2 years in prison for two other cases.