Скандал с родственником Саакашвили дошел до НКР
Запасайтесь попкорном, друзья. Грузинский оппозиционный телеканал рассказывает о том, что дядюшка Саакашвили на пару с русскими вкладывал баблос в НКР!
Imedi TV, Georgia, Oct 12 2007
NGO accuses Georgian president's uncle of dubious deals
[Presenter] Freedom Institute [NGO] has accused [Georgian] President [Mikheil Saakashvili's] uncle Temur Alasania of corrupt deals. Members of the NGO devoted a special meeting to this issue. [News programme] Kronika's correspondent Tea Sichinava attended the briefing. She is live on the air now. Tea, what specific accusation is at issue?
[Correspondent] The Georgian president's uncle Temur Alasania has invested money in the gold business with former Russian Energy Minister Sergey Generalov's support and money on the territory disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan. Freedom Institute member Levan Gogichaishvili submitted this information some time ago referring to an article by John Helmer. We were told here that John Helmer is an expert who was previously Jimmy Carter's assistant. This article provides quite a lot of details of the situation in Armenia around one of the gold companies and mentions Temur Alasania and Sergey Generalov together. Levan Gogichaishvili has described this as double standards, which he said has angered Azerbaijan most of all. He also noted that the current events have the same overtones for Azerbaijan as the inflow of Russian capital into Nagornyy Karabakh and Russian investments in Abkhazia for the Georgians.
[Gogichaishvili, speaking at the briefing] When President Saakashvili spoke at the United Nations, making his statement on some Russian group that had been found [investing in Abkhazia], he, at the same time, had sent his uncle to Russia, where this money was raised. Generalov himself is involved in transportation business, but he has a partner - Proganenkin [name as heard] - who is presumably involved in these affairs and is Mr Temur Alasania's partner too.
Azerbaijan claims that this territory belongs to it and regards it as occupied territory. In the meantime, a Georgian group invests money, which effectively means encouraging separatism in the region. The latest events and reports, saying Georgia's negotiations with the Azerbaijani government on energy resources have been thwarted on a lot of occasions, were precisely due to the group's having shamelessly invested its capital on the territory that Azerbaijan regards as its own. This effectively means encouraging separatism, double standards, and the exposure of the involvement of the president's family in corrupt deals with Russians.
[Correspondent] These statements have already found response in the Georgian parliament. Majority members said that members of the Freedom Institute will simply have to prove and substantiate these accusations. As regards unproved and unspecified statements, majority members referred to [former Georgian Defence Minister] Irakli Okruashvili's example.
[MP Vakhtang Balavadze] Where do they have this information from? They should have concrete facts or arguments. Otherwise, any person can say anything about any other person. We have already become accustomed to this. The opposition does not shun such things. I would like to remind them that Okruashvili too said things but later he admitted that this was not so.
[Correspondent] One more detail from John Helmer's article: A criminal suit was brought in Armenia against the former owner of the company that is now owned by Russians and Georgians. However, we learn from the article that the criminal suit has been suspended now. The author believes that the Russia factor has played a major role here.
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