Media reports on PM’s “private visit” to US “slanderous, false” - Gov’t Administration Head
The official stressed the PM had “himself covered all costs” for the private visit. Photo: Government Press Office
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Revaz Javelidze, the Head of the Government Administration, on Sunday responded to reports by a domestic, opposition-minded TV Pirveli channel on Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili’s alleged trip to the United States with his son on a budget-funded charter flight in August, and called them “slanderous” and “false”.
“The PM has never used budgetary funds for his travel, and never violated the law”, Javelidze told the media, adding Garibashvili had the right to use the Government board, as mentioned earlier by Anzor Chubinidze, the Head of the Special State Protection Service of Georgia.
The official stressed the PM had “himself covered all costs” for the private visit.
The Strategic Communications Department of the Government of Georgia on Sunday also rejected the media reports as “fake” and “deliberately” disseminated to “mislead” the public, claiming the flight carrying the PM to Munich was “commercial” and “no state funds” had been used for this purpose.
It added the channel spread the “fake” information despite being informed by Chubinidze it was a “commercial flight” and expenses had not been reimbursed from the budget.
The department further noted the plane on which the PM travelled to Munich was on the balance of Chubinidze’s agency and the latter was “fully authorised” to receive incomes from commercial flights both from budgetary structures and non-governmental, commercial and private individuals.
The Strategic Communications Service of the Government of Georgia on Sunday rejected “fake reports” by a domestic, opposition-minded TV Pirveli channel that said Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili had travelled to the United States with his son on a Government-funded charter flight in August.
The Strategic Communications Service of the Government of Georgia on Thursday dismissed “false information” in media reports that said Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili had travelled to the United States with his son on a Government-funded charter flight in August.
The Department of Strategic Communications of the Georgian Government on Monday rejected the “misinformation campaign and deliberate misinterpretation” by some “politically engaged media” of the statement by the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili made on Sunday in an interview with Imedi TV.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Tuesday said anyone who considered themselves a friend of the Georgian people must focus on “not encouraging a radical agenda in the country”, in reference to a part of the domestic opposition’s stance.
Kakha Kaladze, the Mayor of Tbilisi and the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Sunday alleged a “deliberate campaign of lies” around foreign travels of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and his family.
Anzor Chubinidze, the Head of the Special State Protection Service, on Tuesday said the Georgian Prime Minister's father, Tariel Garibashvili, had paid for the charter flight of the PM to Munich in August that became a subject of domestic TV reports for allegations on its expenses.