Prosecutor’s Office charges ex-police official for unlawful raid of Imedi TV
Tweet 
Share
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.
Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has released a special statement outlining details of the criminal case against Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili and former government members, citing "high public interest”.
Today Tbilisi City Court found Erekle Kodua, the ex-head of Georgia’s Special Operative Department, guilty of two counts of abusing his power in 2008-2009 and sentenced him in absentia to two years and eight months in prison.
Noshrevan Namoradze, local businessmen and former founder of Tiflis Development Company, said he was the person who attacked David Kodua – the brother of former Ministry of Internal Affairs high official Erekle Kodua, who is currently wanted by Interpol.
Police around the globe are on the lookout for former Georgian Interior Ministry official Erekle Kodua after he was named on Interpol’s wanted list. He is wanted for fraud and abusing power.