Prosecutor’s Office: wiretap of conversation between PM Garibashvili, son of ruling party founder Bera Ivanishvili is fake
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office has released the interim results of an investigation into a case of wiretaps which featured current from PM Irakli Garibashvili and the son of the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanihsvili, Bera Ivanishvili.
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The Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office says that a wiretap of conversation between current PM Irakli Garibashvili, son of the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili, Bera Ivanishvili and the head of Special State Protection Service Anzor Chubinidze, which was released by TV Pirveli in March 2021, is fake.
In the audio recording which was allegedly made under the United National Movement government, Bera Ivanishvili asks Chubinidze to humiliate and punish individuals for online posts insulting the Ivanishvili family.
The Chief Prosecutor’s Office says that Ivanishvili, Garibashvili and Chubinidze were illegally surveillanced between October 2011 and October 2012, in the period when Ivanishvili announced his plans to enter politics and defeat the United National Movement government.
PM Irakli Garibashvili said that ex-President Saakashvili stood behind the wiretap. Photo: government's press office.
The Prosecutor’s Office says that the content of the audio recording is modified in 170 places and that the voices of other individuals are used in 21 places ‘to receive the desired content.’
The statement says that Bera Ivanishvili’s guards really met two authors of the messages which contained threats to Ivanishvili’s family back in 2011.
However, the Prosecutor’s Office says that the meeting took place with the presence of family members and neighbours of the individuals and no improper treatment to them took place.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli GaribasIhvili had stated that the country’s third President Mikheil Saakashvili stood behind the ‘‘dirty provocation of a fake audio recording.’
UNM MP Khatia Dekanoidze says that ‘what the Prosecutor’s Office said is really funny.’
The US Embassy to Georgia has reported that they are ‘watching closely’ the developments around channel TV Pirveli which has recently released a audio recording allegedly featuring a wiretap of a conversation between Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili and the son of the founder of the Georgian Dream ruling party Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili says that the country’s third President Mikheil Saakashvili is behind the ‘dirty provocation of a fake audio recording’ which allegedly features a wiretap of a conversation between him (Garibashvili) and the son of the founder of the Georgian Dream ruling party Bidzina Ivanishvili.
The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has launched an investigation into the alleged wiretap of a conversation between Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, the son of the Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, Bera Ivanishvili, and Anzor Chubinidze, who serves as the Head of the Special State Protection Service.
The ruling Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party has released a statement regarding the alleged wiretap of a conversation between PM Garibashvili and other high-profile individuals, which reads that the ‘fabrication of the recordings seems to be a careful and long work, saved for the right moment'.