Georgian Dream on audio recordings: 'this is a falsification of illegal recordings'
On March 6, TV Pirveli aired audio conversations in which the son of the Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, Bera Ivanishvili, seems to be tasking Anzor Chubinidze, who serves as the Head of the Special State Protection Service since 2014, to humiliate and punish youngsters for online posts insulting the Ivanishvili family. Photo: shot from TV Pirveli video.
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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'.
The statement reads that 'one of the party TV channels' had released the fabrication of illegal recordings made in 2010-2011 and the 'fake conversations' consist of words and phrases taken from dozens of recordings that covered a period of at least a few months.
This is a gross fabrication of conversations between Irakli Gharibashvili, president of the Cartu charity fund, and minor Bera Ivanishvili illegally recorded during the rule of the National Movement...Illegal eavesdropping, use and fabrication of conversations, violence, murder and similar things are the handwriting of the National Movement. As for the Georgian Dream and its leaders, they have not used similar methods either before or after entering politics", reads the statement.
On March 6, TV Pirveli aired audio conversations in which the son of the Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, Bera Ivanishvili, seems to be tasking Anzor Chubinidze, who serves as the Head of the Special State Protection Service since 2014, to humiliate and punish youngsters for online posts insulting the Ivanishvili family.
Civil society organisations including the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), Transparency International Georgia and the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) call for investigation into the alleged violation by state officials after TV Pirveli media outlet aired covert phone conversation between Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Bera Ivanishvili - the son of the former ruling Georgian Dream party chair 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.
Six opposition activists have been detained at the headquarters of the Georgian Dream ruling party earlier today for disobedience to police.
Bera Ivanishvili, the son of former ruling party chair Bidzina Ivanishvili, has given an interview to Imedi TV about the recent wiretapped conversation with current Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
Tbilisi City Court has granted the Prosecutor’s Office’s request for the seizure of audio tapes which allegedly feature a wiretap of a conversation between current PM Irakli Garibashvili, former head of the Georgian Dream party’s son Bera Ivanishvili and other high-ranking officials.
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 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.