What is about case against Georgian Dream which MIA announced on the Election Day?

Netgazeti

On October 3, MIA representatives kept silence about the statement which they made on October 1 and alleged about mass distribution of money in the name of concrete political party in the regions of Georgia.

Netgazeti called those police officers who had summoned Georgian Dream’s coordinators to interrogation for accepting money on October 2 in Tskaltubo.

Malkhaz Mzhavia, Chief police officer in the villages of Salia, Partskhanakanebi and Mukhiani in Tskaltubo district confirmed with Netgazeti that he had personally summoned three coordinators of the Georgian Dream Mamuka Pkhakadze, Shalva Goduadze and Temur Iamanidze to interrogations in police on October 2.

“But I do not know whether they were questioned or not; they should have met an investigator,” the chief police officer said.

Tskaltubo district police investigator Malkhaz Basiladze, who confirms summoning of the Georgian Dream’s coordinator Nana Kutateladze to police, told us we should appeal to the MIA press-center for detailed information.

MIA press-center could not answer our questions about these facts.

“If MIA had something to say regarding these facts, we would have already spread statement about it. However, I will try to find out details for you,” head of MIA press-center Salome Makharadze told Netgazeti on October 3 but she never called us back.

Early morning of October 1, MIA spread information about mass distribution of money in the regions and police is working to check information. MIA statement read that According to the received information, the distribution is happening on behalf of a concrete political entity.

“The Ministry of Internal Affairs calls on all parties to take all measures to discourage its members and activists from potential criminal offenses. Bearing in mind that parliamentary elections are tomorrow, the police will refrain from summoning and questioning any representatives of political parties,” the statement read.

On the same day, Georgian Dream’s majoritarian candidate in Tskaltubo district Paata Zakareishvili spread statement that police officers psychologically oppressed their coordinators and sub-coordinators by phone calls and blamed them in taking money and summoned to police stations.

Zakareishvili named concrete people who were summoned to the police. He said those people were activists of the Georgian Dream.

“They must be at the polling stations and carry out their legal duties on the Election Day. The phone calls shall be clearly interpreted as form of psychological intimidation in order to control their activities on polling day. We can openly declare that Georgian Dream has not paid money to the coordinators. So, police officers intimidated our coordinators with phone calls in order to influence their activities during the polling process and it has a political motive,” Zakareishvili said.