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Saakashvili to be interrogated over Imedi TV company case
TERT.AM
11:37 - 24.02.1
Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili may be invited for
interrogation relating to the seizure of Imedi TV company by the
representatives of authorities, Russian Vzglyad reports citing
Georgia's Prosecutor General Archil Kbilashvili.
Kbilashvili said Georgia's president will be a witness in the case. On
Saturday the investigative service has accused Tbilisi mayor Gigi
Ugulava of seizing Imedi TV company after its American owner Joseph
Key was forced to sell it in 2008 to the mayor surrendering to
pressures and threats. According to investigation materials, the TV
company was financed by a false deal of Tbilisi municipality.
`According to Joseph Key's testimonies all the deals by the former
authorities aimed at taking the TV company were done with the consent
of the president. The president will be invited for the interrogation
as a witness for making some clarifications,' Kbilashvili said.
Spokesperson for Mikheil Saakashvili Manana Manjgaladze described the
prosecutor's words as `dirty labeling.'
The founder of Imedi is deceased businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili
who died in February 2008. The television company was handed to his
family after change of power in 2012.
From: A. Papazian
TERT.AM
11:37 - 24.02.1
Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili may be invited for
interrogation relating to the seizure of Imedi TV company by the
representatives of authorities, Russian Vzglyad reports citing
Georgia's Prosecutor General Archil Kbilashvili.
Kbilashvili said Georgia's president will be a witness in the case. On
Saturday the investigative service has accused Tbilisi mayor Gigi
Ugulava of seizing Imedi TV company after its American owner Joseph
Key was forced to sell it in 2008 to the mayor surrendering to
pressures and threats. According to investigation materials, the TV
company was financed by a false deal of Tbilisi municipality.
`According to Joseph Key's testimonies all the deals by the former
authorities aimed at taking the TV company were done with the consent
of the president. The president will be invited for the interrogation
as a witness for making some clarifications,' Kbilashvili said.
Spokesperson for Mikheil Saakashvili Manana Manjgaladze described the
prosecutor's words as `dirty labeling.'
The founder of Imedi is deceased businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili
who died in February 2008. The television company was handed to his
family after change of power in 2012.
From: A. Papazian