Analysis | Georgia’s tapes scandals suggest something is rotten at the top of Georgian politics
The Omega Tapes scandal, and now secret recordings of former official Mirza Subeliani, suggest Georgia’s government has serious questions to answer.
Former mayor of Makhachkala sentenced to 4 years in prison
Musa Musayev pled guilty on corruption charges after cooperating with investigators in the case.
Prosecutor’s Office ‘stages’ new Subeliani tapes contradicting claims of abuse
Critics have pointed to inconsistencies in the new tapes and there has been widespread speculation they were staged.
Detained former Georgian official threatens to bring down government with ‘kompromat’
In secret recordings from prison, Mirza Subeliani, on trial over the Khorava Street murder investigation, spoke of torturing witnesses.
Daghestanis protest constructions on Caspian coast
Around 100 people took to the streets in the coastal city of Kaspiysk demanding that the mayor not approve amendments to the city’s master plan.
Georgian court orders authorities to provide water connection for Kobuleti Muslim school
The local mayor’s office had argued they could not do so because of ‘objections from neighbours’ leading to the school remaining closed.
Case against Daghestani official ‘fabricated to free up his position'
Lawyers for an official accused of embezzling ₽60 million say the case against him was fabricated to free up his position for someone else.
Rustavi 2 crew attacked by railway company employees in Georgia
The news crew said employees confiscated their cameras, demanded they delete footage, and beat them.
Georgian rights activist’s murder was ‘a hate crime’
Two Georgian rights groups called on the Prosecutor’s Office to consider the fatal stabbing in Tbilisi a possibly hate-motivated crime.
Georgia’s ruling party lashes out at NGOs over Omega tapes criticism
Fifteen prominent NGOs demanded action over the recordings labelling them a ‘clear sign of grand corruption and informal clan rule in Georgia’.