SS Prepares Recording of Gvaramia, Saakashvili

In a recent statement, Rustavi 2 Director General Nika Gvaramia said that State Security is creating a new recording of his telephone conversation with former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.  However, this new recording is a combination of multiple different conversations according to Gvaramia.  Further, he has been lead to believe that investigative agencies plan to circulate the recording of this conversation with Saakashvili.  

Gvaramia stated that the conversation pertained to Zaza Saralidze who is father of one of the teenagers killed on Khorava Street in Tbilisi.  Saralidze was inquiring about aid in organizing protest rallies.  And the person that told Gvaramia that the recording would be circulated, told him that Mirza Subelian sent Viktor Japaridze to prison for also creating a recording.  

Gvaramia continued to elaborate by stating, ”I wrote on October 14 that Victor Japaridze was in prison to make a fake record published later by the prosecutor’s office. There is nothing strange about it. We have sources everywhere and these sources provide information instantly. Accordingly, we now know for example that the State Security Service is preparing a new recording of the telephone conversation between me and Mikheil Saakashvili. Some combination of different conversations, there’re added voices , etc. We have been talking about this too long. I do not care at all. Yes, I speak to Mikheil Saakashvili.

"Yes, I speak to Gigi Ugulava. Yes, I talk to Shalva Natelashvili Yes, I spoke to Burchuladze when he was in politics, Irakli Alasania, etc. I talk to everyone with whom I think it is necessary. I do not plan any crime, I have my political sympathies and antipath. I have my views regarding Georgia’s development.”

By Shirin Mahdavi