Investigator convicted after minor’s death released before end of term
Investigator Mariana Choloiani was sentenced to three years in prison following the death of minor Luka Siradze back in 2019. Photo: IPN.
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Investigator Mariana Choloiani, who was sentenced to three years in prison for ‘applying psychological pressure’ to 15-year-old Luka Siradze back in 2019 who later committed suicide, has been early released from prison, her lawyer Gagi Mosiashvili has confirmed.
Choloiani has been released by the decision of a council of the Special Penitentiary Service of Georgia ‘for exemplary behaviour in prison.’
Siradze committed suicide on December 17, 2019.
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- Investigator charged with exerting pressure on minor leading to death
After the death of the minor, his family and lawyer said that law enforcers and investigator Choloiani had exerted psychological pressure on the minor, coercing him into admitting to the crime of damaging the property of the Mtsvane School in Tbilisi and writing vulgar phrases on its walls.
Now Siradze’s family says that the early release of Choloiani ‘is an insult to the family.’
Her friends or former colleagues used the current situation in the country and helped her leave prison after serving only 1.5 years,” Siradze’s brother said.
The Lelo opposition party says that the Special Penitentiary Service ‘must provide explanations’ on the issue.
Tbilisi City Court has sentenced investigator Mariana Choloiani to 3 years in prison for placing psychological pressure on 15-year-old Luka Siradze, who subsequently tried to commit suicide and died several days later on December 17, 2019.
State Inspector Londa Toloraia, who is investigating causes behind the death of 15-year-old Luka Siradze, says that investigator Mariana Choloiani, who has been sent to pretrial detention, made threats to the minor that if he had not admitted to the crime his brother would have had problems.
Didube-Chugureti police district investigator Mariana Choloiani, arrested in connection with the recent suicide of a 15-year-old minor, has been charged today for forcing him to plead guilty, says the Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
The Georgian State Inspector’s Office, a newly created independent agency investigating alleged offences committed by law enforcers, has pointed at possible problems at a school, not only at a police station which could have pushed a 15-year-old minor to commit suicide last week. “Situations, which could not have been acceptable or desirable for a child have been revealed at a school. Such situations also took place at a police station,” head of the agency Londa Toloraia told the media.