Zaza Okuashvili decided to do what Bidzina Ivanishvili really needs today - Zaza Okuashvili decided to close the "Mtavari Arkhi". Okuashvili is doing this with the help of Gogi Kurdadze, the director appointed by him a few months ago and the obedient executor of his tasks, - the said statement was made by the general director of the "Mtavari Arkhi" together with the co-founders.

According to Giorgi Gabunia, Kurdadze was specially appointed to the company on the recommendation of Okuashvili with the sole purpose of giving the mentioned founder effective leverage on the channel to achieve personal goals.

According to Gabunia, the employees will "fight as far as we can and we will be on the air for our viewers and the Georgian people".

"At a time when the Georgian people are fighting in the streets to protect their rights and to remove an illegitimate government, when protesters are openly abused, brutally tortured, robbed, illegally detained, tried and thrown into prisons, and when journalists standing on the front lines of these events are the targets of deliberate physical attacks, at this time one of the founders of the "Mtavari Arkhi" decided, in fact, to get involved in the mass violence initiated by "Georgian Dream" and to use the means at his disposal to abuse our journalists in order to make their work impossible - instead of In the situation, the founder, on the contrary, should do everything to help his team.

Zaza Okuashvili decided to do what Bidzina Ivanishvili really needs today - Zaza Okuashvili decided to close the "Mtavari Arkhi" obedient executor of his tasks. Kurdadze was specially appointed to the company on the recommendation of Okuashvili with the sole task - that the mentioned founder would have effective leverage on the channel to achieve personal goals, otherwise Gogi Kurdadze does not have any competence related to the specifics of television, he does not even know the employees of the channel, he ignores their request to simply meet with them! And he doesn't even go to work at all.

The only thing that Gogi Kurdadze does on Okuashvili's orders is to block all financial operations in the company and refuses to sign vital contracts for the company. For example, thanks to him, health insurance was stopped for our employees, which is especially important in today's situation, when journalists and cameramen are systematically abused, but Okuashvili and Kurdadze are not interested in this, even though they - as the founder and director - are responsible for the company's employees.

Due to the decision of Zaza Okuashvili and the actions of its director, the "Mtavari Arkhi" has already been left without financial sources, and the contracts signed with us are slowly being terminated, which will eventually make the channel's work impossible - and this is exactly what Bidzina Ivanishvili needs today.

To justify his decisions, Okuashvili uses such absurd, invented accusations that I don't even consider worthy of discussion here - they have gone so far in their lies that they claim that Bidzina Ivanishvili is protecting us and that we have a deal with the oligarch. Besides, it turns out, we sometimes tell Kurdadze ourselves...

In fact, everything is clear and it is exactly the opposite - if anyone is doing the work of "Georgian Dream" on the "Main Channel" today, it is Zaza Okuashvili, who is deliberately leading the channel to its closure. And there is a very reasonable suspicion that he is doing this by agreeing with or trading with the illegitimate government - as you probably know, Okuashvili has a serious legal dispute with Bidzina Ivanishvili, which does not exclude cooperation between them, but on the contrary - Okuashvili needs a lot to reach an agreement in this dispute. Manipulation of the "main channel".

Dealing with "Georgian Dream" is not news from Okuashvili's side - we remind you that it was his family members, Nato and Rostom Chkheidze, who voted for the members of the Council of Justice desired by "Dream" when the government lacked its own votes to remove these candidates and definitely needed some opposition votes as well. Then the members of Okuashvili's family appeared as a lifeline.

We did not fight so much to finally get the channel - in the form of Zaza Okuashvili - into the hands of Bidzina Ivanishvili. Therefore, as far as we can, we will fight again and be on the air for our viewers and the Georgian people.

The main thing is you, and the most important thing for us is to stand with our colleagues in the hottest spots until the last minute and tell you what is happening there, where the fate of Georgia is decided, and no Gogi, no Zaza, and not even Putin's friend Bidzina can stop us!

Thank you very much!" - said Giorgi Gabunia.