MP Eka Beselia says members of ruling party are still being blackmailed with footages depicting personal lives
By Nika Gamtsemlidze
Tuesday, October 1
Independent MP of the Parliament, Eka Beselia says that she has information about four members of the ruling party who are being blackmailed and threatened with the footage depicting their private lives. She talked about this with reporters yesterday, on September 30, near the prosecutor’s office. Beselia was summoned to the investigative body because of her previous statements about the matter.
“There may be more, there may be even more,” noted Beselia and said that there also is a man among those who are being threatened. Beselia did not specify the names.
Eka Beselia also spoke about "links between an influential group of judges and members of parliament." Beselia blames the majority of MPs Vano Zardiashvili and Davit Matiikashvili for connections between the groups.
On September 26, after Beselia argued with Zardiashvili, the lawmaker talked about the issue of blackmailing with the TV Pirveli.
“An immoral person tried to make me responsible for leaking the footage. This is an ignominious behavior. I say it once again, the person who made and leaked this footage is an immoral human being and should be punished with the full force of the law,” said Beselia.
After a few days, Beselia openly opposed the previous 10-member list of judges, footage of MP’s private life leaked on social media. Beselia noted that the distribution of footage coincided with her statements about the judges.
According to Davit Matikashvili, MP of the ruling party, Beselia’s statements are a “bankrupt politician's frustrated attempt to get herself back into the political orbit.” According to him, Eka Beselia is trying to make herself relevant when in reality her place is no longer in the political arena.
According to the MIA, a citizen of Georgia D.A., who is serving a prison sentence for murder, received the mentioned recordings from a citizen of Russia – M.D. through the Facebook app, messenger. As Mamuka Chelidze, acting Director of Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted, “secret recordings depicting a Georgian lawmaker’s private life were leaked in January of 2019 from the territory of the Republic of Armenia by a citizen of Georgia.”
