“This is an internal reckoning within Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Russian gang of traitors and criminals, where one or several representatives of the gang hid or ‘diverted’ money from the gang’s leader. Whether they detain or do not detain depends solely on what suits Bidzina Ivanishvili and his gang,” said Giorgi Baramidze, Political Secretary of the National Movement, to journalists, commenting on the questioning of former Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili at the State Security Service (SSS).
As he noted, “Bidzina Ivanishvili is now trying to recover money stolen from the people and the budget.”
“The regime wants to portray these internal reckonings within this gang of traitors, criminals, and Russian mafiosi as if they are fighting corruption and are concerned about the squandering of people’s money or the budget due to the improper actions of one or another representative of their gang. This is an internal reckoning within Ivanishvili’s criminal gang, which has nothing to do with upholding the law, fighting corruption, or any other lawful activity. We see the gang’s representatives settling scores with each other, with internal clan shifts and rearrangements, and the concentration of power around Kobakhidze and his small gang. This is nothing but a game of cards within Bidzina Ivanishvili’s mafiosi gang.
Throughout these 13 years, we have repeatedly pointed out facts proving the plundering of the people’s budget and the country’s economy by the highest-ranking representatives of Ivanishvili’s gang, which is only a fraction of the scale of what is actually happening. Against this backdrop, these individuals have not yet been detained, while President Saakashvili has been a political prisoner of this gang for five years. After they couldn’t find anything against him, they accused him of stealing billions, then charged him over officially documented expenses. This is why he has been serving a sentence for five years.
What is happening and visible to the public has nothing to do with the fight for legality or against corruption in the country. This is an internal reckoning within Ivanishvili’s Russian gang of traitors and criminals, where one or several representatives hid or ‘diverted’ money from the gang’s leader. Now Bidzina Ivanishvili is trying to recover money stolen from the people and the budget, and this is the task assigned to his gang. Naturally, this process has nothing to do with legality, justice, fighting corruption, or state interests. It is all an internal affair within the clan or gang. Everything will unfold—whether they detain or do not detain—solely based on what suits Bidzina Ivanishvili and his gang, not on what is right according to the law and justice,” said Giorgi Baramidze.
Giorgi Baramidze on Irakli Gharibashvili’s questioning at the SSS: This process has nothing to do with legality, justice, fighting corruption, or state interests – it is an internal affair within a clan or gang
