How can you see that our political leadership is influenced by Otar Partskhaladze? - Has the foreign policy course changed? Has Russia received any advantage in the Caucasus, apart from the advantage it received during Saakashvili's government? How do you have questions and suspicions that Partskhaladze influenced the political council of our party or the position of any of us? Who can you suspect to be under the influence of Partskhaladze?! Has anything happened that can be linked to Otar Partskhaladze?! - First Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, Gia Volski, told the journalists.

According to Volski, Partskhaladze "hasn't appeared on the horizon" since 2013, and he doesn't even know him personally.

"If a specific authoritative structure of the USA has such evidence, of course, it should be studied by the relevant structures in Georgia. But has any policy changed?! - The only thing that one can think about is that the same scenario is being created intentionally, which we had in 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili was told by the entire US political establishment not to take a specific step, but he did it anyway. What could be more concession to Russia than that?!" said Gia Volski.

The US Department of State has designated former chief prosecutor of Georgia Otar Partskhaladze. According to the Department of State, Partskhaladze was designated pursuant to section 1(a)(i) for operating or having operated in the management consulting sector of the Russian Federation economy. Partskhaladze is a Georgian-Russian oligarch.

“FSB Aleksandr Officer Onishchenko likely assisted his associate Partskhaladze in obtaining a Russian passport and possibly Russian citizenship. Partskhaladze has fully taken on a Russian identity and routinely travels to Russia. Onishchenko and the FSB have leveraged Partskhaladze to influence Georgian society and politics for the benefit of Russia. Partskhaladze has reportedly personally profited from his FSB connection”, US Department of Statem said.