Georgian Dream on audio recordings: 'this is a falsification of illegal recordings'

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.