Levan Khabeishvili: Bidzina Ivanishvili's oligarchic clan continues to support Putin's terrorist regime - this time the case is related to Batumi port and oil terminal

With the direct lobbying by the Bidzina Ivanishvili clan and the participation of the head of the State Security Service, Grigol Liluashvili, a person close to the management of the Russian oil giant Rosneft, Askar Saparbekov, is being appointed to the Batumi oil terminal, which is managed by the Kazakh company KazTransOil, - the chairman of the United National Movement, Levan Khabeishvili writes on the social network.

According to him, the Russian clan is lobbying Saparbekov for the position of the head of the department of commerce and logistics at the Batumi oil terminal, the main goal of which is to fully control the Batumi oil terminal and port.

Levan Khabeishvili appeals to the relevant services, the international community, the EU representation and the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Georgia and asks them to get interested in the mentioned information and to take appropriate preventive measures.

"Bidzina Ivanishvili's oligarchic clan continues to support Putin's terrorist regime. This time the case is related to Batumi port and oil terminal. You all remember that on June 27, 2022, the Turkish-flagged tanker ESEN KA, loaded with Russian-sanctioned oil products, arrived in the Batumi port. The cargo belonged to the Russian sanctioned state company Rosneft, and its importer in Georgia was SPG Treidingi, a subsidiary of Petrocas energy group, and the mentioned companies represent the assets of the Russian oil giant Rosneft in Georgia.

The purpose of importing Russian-sanctioned oil products was to avoid sanctions. The tanker that entered the Batumi port from Russia would change the documents as if it was loaded in Georgia, with Turkmen diesel instead of Russian-sanctioned oil products, after which the cargo would reach any country in the world, including Europe.

A year ago, when this information was spread in the media, Minister of Economy Levan Davitashvili responded to the issue with a special briefing and confirmed that there were indeed sanctioned oil products on the ship and the tanker immediately left the Batumi port.

A year has passed since then, but the government has not released any additional information about the mentioned fact. It is unclear whether the relevant services took an interest in the issue and whether they investigated who was behind the mentioned fraudulent scheme.

Today, new details are becoming known to us. With the direct lobbying by the Bidzina Ivanishvili clan and the participation of the head of the State Security Service, Grigol Liluashvili, a person close to the management of the Russian oil giant Rosneft, Askar Saparbekov, is being appointed to the Batumi oil terminal, which is managed by the Kazakh company KazTransOil. The Russian clan lobbies him for the position of the head of the department of commerce and logistics in the Batumi oil terminal, the main task is to have the opportunity to produce forged documents and then fully control the Batumi oil terminal and the port as a whole.

Erik Sagiev, a representative of the KazTransOil company, is allegedly involved in lobbying Russian interests, their task is for Russian companies to circumvent Western sanctions by using the Batumi port, which is aimed at providing financial support to Putin's terrorist regime.

I appeal to the relevant services, the international community, the representation of the European Union, the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Georgia, to get interested in the mentioned information and to take appropriate preventive measures.

Georgia will not become a supporter of Putin's terrorist regime, and all those involved in this anti-state act will be severely punished.

Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Georgia! Glory to the heroes!" - Levan Khabeishvili writes on the social network.

Michał Kobosko - we hope that your government eventually would either choose the European way, the democratic way or would resign seeing the number, the size and scale of the citizens' protests