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Bidzina Ivanishvili

Omega Tapes: former minister says extortion tapes staged for ‘foreign investors’

by OC Media

•5 min read

A former Georgian minister caught on tape allegedly extorting money and cars from a businessman on behalf of former PM Bidzina Ivanishvili has claimed the recordings were staged for the benefit of foreign investors. Opposition-leaning TV station Rustavi 2 has aired several audio recordings taken in 2016 suggesting the government was pressuring Omega Group. Levan Kipiani, who previously served as the country’s Minister of Sports, confirmed to journalists on Wednesday that the recordings we

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Former Georgian minister ‘beaten and threatened with rape’ by chief prosecutor

by OC Media

•4 min read

Georgia’s former Sports Minister Levan Kipiani was kidnapped, beaten, and threatened to have his ‘honour violated’, over pressure being applied to Omega Group in 2016, the company’s owner and founder Zaza Okuashvili has alleged in an interview with Rustavi 2. Omega Group owns popular TV station Iberia TV. Rustavi 2, an opposition-leaning TV channel, accused former Georgian Chief Prosecutor Otar Partskhaladze of taking Kipiani to a basement where he was stripped and threatened with rape.