The President of Cartu Group Nodar Javakhishvili talks about increase of withdrawal of deposits from Cartu Bank.
As Nodar Javakhishvili stated in the program Resume of radio Palitra the withdrawal of deposits from the Cartu Bank has increased.
“We needed this money not to impede our clients. We know that there is pressure to transfer money to other banks. The incident related to Cartu is a direct indication that this bank is under the government’s attack and a call to people to transfer money,” – Javakjishvili noted.
Javakhishvili does not exclude that the charity projects of Cartu Bank might be attacked as well.
“As of today, we have not stopped any projects, but if this pressure, including financial difficulties continues all these projects might stop,” – Nodar Javakhishvili noted. These are different charity projects, including the salaries for the representatives of art and sports.
On October 18th Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) disseminated information that several individuals were detained under the charge of money laundering. According to MIA, they had big amount of cash. The criminal case has been filed according to part III of article 194 of Criminal Code of Georgia (laundering big amount of money). The car of Cartu Bank which was transferring the money was detained at the main office of Bank of Georgia by the law-enforcement officials.
As of today, one million Euros and two million dollars have been seized.
This fact was assessed as aggressive and criminal attack against the businessman by the press secretary of Bidzina Ivanishvili.
The employees of Cartu Bank, accountants – Inga Javakhia, Irma Ketishvili, Lia Maghradze, Nato Davituliani, cash collectors – Achil Japarashvili and Zaza Kavelashvili were detained. They were freed right after being interrogated as witnesses.
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