Родственник Саакашвили инвестирует в НКР

[groul]

Не падайте в обморок, запасайтесь попкорном...

Поправка: меня тут поправили, что не с генералом, а с бывшим министром энергетики России Генераловым

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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.

[hracher]

Что и следовала доказать, Россия никогда не теряла контроль над Грузией.

[Javakhk]

Представляю какой конфуз охватит азербайанские форумы, когда туда дойдет информация о том, что родной дядя Саакашвили инвестировал деньги в освобожденные районы Карабаха!!!