Prosecutor’s Office Alleges Homosexuals Were Blackmailed with Video Footage Following Megis Kardava’s Instructions

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The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia presented the scandalous video footage to the media wherein, as the office clarified, confidants of Megis Kardava, former Head of the Military Police Department at the Defense Ministry, had sexual intercourse with male celebrities at secret addresses.

The Chief Prosecutor’s Office has released information regarding this fact. The statement reads that according to Kardava’s instructions, other senior officers of the Military Police Department, by abusing their own professional power, abused and insulted the personal dignity of citizens. “The investigation has concluded that under the instruction and supervision of Megis Kardava, former Head of the Military Police Department of the Defense Ministry of Georgia, senior officials of the same institution collected information about male representatives of sexual minorities, video-recorded details of their personal lives in secret, and illegally used the video footage to blackmail them afterwards and to compel them to secretly cooperate with special services.

Illegally recruited confidants had sexual intercourse with homosexual celebrities in a conspiracy which the victims were unaware of. The confidants attracted the celebrities to secret flats rented by state operative sources, where secret audio-video cameras had been installed.

So far, the investigation has discovered three secret flats where confidants of senior military police officers had sexual intercourse with the selected victims; the video footage was then personally handed to Megis Kardava.

Afterwards, in order to keep officials from publishing the aforementioned video footage, the victims of the conspiracy agreed to demonstrate their loyalty to the acting political regime and participate in different events organized to increase the popularity of the former government.

In addition, the footage was used for the extortion of money.

Megis Kardava, the former head of military police at the Ministry of Defense, calls the allegation from the Prosecutor’s Office absurd; Kardava’s lawyer Malkhaz Velijanashvili told InterpressNews about it.

The lawyer said he had conversed with Kardava after the video-footage was depicted and Kardava categorically denied he had ordered video recording of sexual activities of sexual minorities.

The lawyer says Megis Kardava had not been indicted for the above-mentioned crime.

“He is indicted for organization of torture and not for ordering video recording of sexual activities of sexual minorities. Yesterday, he was charged for completely different episode namely for the abuse of a prisoner. It is impossible to blame Megis Kardava for everything. If somebody in his department used to video-record another person and extorted money from him, Megis Kardava cannot be held responsible for that. Kardava believes it is absurd and prosecutor’s office does its best to collect groundless accusations against him,” the lawyer said.