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Georgian security services arrest former senior prison official for ‘staging’ Bachiashvili beating
The arrest came just a day after another former official implicated in the investigation was found dead in a purported suicide.
The arrest came just a day after another former official implicated in the investigation was found dead in a purported suicide.
Davit Gogoberishvili had resigned after Giorgi Bachiashvili, a critic of Bidzina Ivanishvili, was beaten in his cell at the prison he oversaw.
The imprisoned businessperson described the process as a retaliation against him.
The accounts were frozen as part of a legal battle between Ivanishvili and Bachiashvili.
Giorgi Bachiashvili has been in prison since May.
Giorgi Bachiashvili was ‘forcefully returned’ to Georgia in May.
The announcement of Giorgi Bachiashvili’s arrest came one day after the publication of a profile on him in the Guardian.