MIA arrests individual who uploaded private footage on YouTube
During a search of his home, investigators have found a mobile phone of the detainee where he kept the video. Photo: MIA
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One has been detained for uploading intimate private footage on YouTube, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
The individual has acknowledged his guilt in the matter.
The detention comes after the statement of Georgian Dream ruling party MP Eka Beselia, who said on 28 January that footage of her personal life recorded under the United National Movement leadership had gone viral.
During a search of his home, investigators have found a mobile phone of the detainee where he kept the video.
Earlier yesterday the MIA detained 16 individuals for the possession and release of private footage which was uploaded by the individual detained last night.
Those citizens who have been questioned regarding the case have cooperated with the investigators and provided concrete information. We call on our citizens not to get involved in the crime and stop spreading any kind of personal videos in any form. Otherwise the law enforcement agencies will take measures according to the legislation,” Head of the Central Criminal Department of the MIA Vladimer Botsvadze said at a briefing last night.
Earlier yesterday the MIA said the detainees used their social pages and special mobile applications to store the footage and release it. The crime is punishable by four to eight years in prison.
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Zurab Solomonashvili who was sentenced to imprisonment is accused in uploading the footage on YouTube. Other seven person were accused in spreading the footage via social network and messaging apps.
The Georgian Interior Ministry is very likely to request help from foreign partners to investigate leak of a private life footage, featuring Georgian Dream MP Eka Beslia.
One person has been detained for uploading the private footage of a Georgian politician on YouTube late yesterday, Deputy Interior Minister Natia Mezvrishvili said. She stated that the individual had no private motivation to upload the video, and, consequently, the crime had no client.
Through cooperation with Facebook administration the MIA has found out that the accused had been registered on Facebook under the user name Buba Lomtatidze and has released personal footage for several times in January.
Georgian Interior Ministry says that they have identified and charged an individual who was the first to make private footage of Georgian MP Eka Beselia go viral back in January 2019. The ministry says that the individual is a Georgian citizen who is currently imprisoned in Armenia on murder charges.
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