Members of Fellowship Might be Deprived of Residential Building

Representatives of the Fellowship “Tabukashvili 88” have recently applied to the Human Rights Center for assistance with a property dispute.  Residents of the Levan Tabukashvili Street in Tbilisi founded the fellowship back in 1988. The fellowship members at the time had registered the territory where their old houses were located. Then, according to the general decision, they pulled down old houses and started constructing a new ten-storied residential building in its place.

Founders of the Tabukashvili 88 stated that one group of the fellowship in cooperation with its former director have illegally attempted to expel most of the founders and that now they want to take full control and misappropriate the whole building from its rightful owners.

A small group of fellowship members, with Zurab Tabukashvili as leader, have managed to set up a board of the fellowship under suspicious conditions and have tried to expel plenipotentiary members from the organization. The illegality of the board is confirmed by the fact that it was founded deliberately and this was done without the participation of the majority of the members of the fellowship, as which is required.

Later, in 2007 the fellowship organized an overall meeting where Zurab Tabukashvili resigned from his position and Zaur Djamagidze replaced him. Regardless, Tabukashvili then tried to make self-serving decisions without asking opinions of other members of the fellowship and he spends the common property. More precisely, he tries to get hold of the properties of the members who were expelled from the fellowship. Levan Tabukashvili Street is located in prestigious district in Tbilisi and the value of real estate there is living is very expensive.

The Building Company “Centre Point” is constructing the building. Subordinated leaser is “Investment Agency of Eurasia”. In addition, the Center-Point Group did not hold the written confirmation of the fellowship members that provides for construction. The territory was charged based on bonds without the permission of fellowship members.

The fellowship appealed to the National Bureau of the Tbilisi Public Registry and requested to register the estate in Tabukashvili Street # 7, 9, 11, 11a, 18 and 19 to them. In reply, the Public Registry demanded the agreements signed by all members of the fellowship and that decision of the entity that be established and be based on those agreements. Those documents could prove the requests of all members to register as co-owners of the property at the Public Registry.

Since the fellowship is divided into two, they cannot provide all agreements. Zaur Djamagidze appealed to each and every member to find all sources to reach a compromise and establish a joint entity that will be able to legally register their property.

Tea Topuria, Tbilisi