
Former Georgian PM Gakharia under investigation over 2019 South Ossetia checkpoint
Gakharia is being accused of creating a risk of war by installing a checkpoint neat South Ossetia in 2019.
Gakharia is being accused of creating a risk of war by installing a checkpoint neat South Ossetia in 2019.
MPs from the opposition For Georgia party did not renounce their parliamentary mandates, but have still been boycotting sessions.
Municipal elections in Georgia are planned to be held on 4 October.
It was unclear until the last moment whether Giorgi Gakharia would even attend the commission’s hearing.
Giorgi Gakharia split with the ruling Georgian Dream party in 2021.
Former PM Giorgi Gakharia and Transparency International employee Zviad Koridze were attacked 15 minutes apart in the same hotel.
Georgian Dream’s Executive Secretary Mamuka Mdinaradze has accused opposition leader Giorgi Gakharia of being a spy, adding that the party appointed him prime minister in 2019 as a tribute to his foreign patrons. Gakharia served as interior minister under Georgian Dream from November 2017 to September 2019, when he was nominated for the prime ministership by party founder Bidzina Ivanishvili. He later fell out with the party and resigned in 2021, going on to form his own party, For Georgia.