Prosecution concludes 23-year-old IT specialist committed suicide, closes investigation

The Georgian Prosecutor's Office has concluded its investigation into the death of 23-three-year-old IT specialist Tamar Bachaliashvili, surmising she had committed suicide. 

The prosecution said that over 600 individuals have been summoned to interrogation, a number of video recordings and phone logs have been studied, information from her phone and computer has been restored, including her Facebook and Instagram profiles.

The obtained evidence shows that no crime was committed’ against Tamar Bachaliashvili and she ended her life by committing suicide. Therefore, a decision was made to close the investigation into the criminal case”, Prosecutor Amiran Guluashvili said at the news briefing earlier today.

Guliashvili also said that the IT specialist had been looking for the methods of suicide in Google a couple of days prior to her death in Jule, 2020. He added as well that Bachaliashvili had bought a number of medicines, including sleeping pills, antidepressants and histamine receptor blockers. 

The Prosecutor's Office has released a video footage showing Tamar Bachaliashvili entering different pharmacies teh day before her death. Photo: Shot from the video

The Prosecutor’s Office has announced that drug intoxication was the cause of Bachaliashvili’s death back in September. It then said that the drugs were swallowed, not injected and that her body had not suffered any physical injuries.

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Bachaliashvili, who went missing from Polichala district of Tbilisi on July 18, was found dead in her own car in a forest in Tetritskaro municipality in eastern Georgia on July 22.

Her family does not trust the investigation claiming the girl was killed after she allegedly came across some classified information or dealt with some ‘dangerous people.’ 

Bachaliashvili's mother Teona Tamazashvili told Formula TV on December 17 that during the meeting with prosecution the previous day the family was not informed that they planned to close the investigation. Tamazashvili said she was instead looking forward to sharing some more evidence to prosecution that the family is expecting to receive from the United States. Photo: IPN

Lawyer Eka Kobesashvili told journalists today that the ‘sudden closure’ of the case ‘causes doubts’ that Tamar Bachaliashvili’s death is ‘a huge problem’ for the Prosecutor’s Office. 

Stating that they will not step back, Kobesashvili said the family will continue to fight for the truth and  appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.