Valeri Gelashvili: Thank you for your attention, Ms. Tea, but I did not deserve this. These are my pending cases - I did not deserve this! What did I fight for in 2012?

Thank you for your attention, Ms. Tea, but I did not deserve this. These are my pending cases - I did not deserve this! What did I fight for in 2012? - this is how former MP Valeri Gelashvili addressed the Chairperson of the Temporary Investigative Commission, Tea Tsulukiani, and placed on the table the complaints that he had brought to the commission session and that concern his disputed cases.

Gelashvili stated this when his interrogation at the commission session had already ended and he was leaving the commission session, although he said in a few words just as he was leaving. In turn, Tea Tsulukiani asked Gelashvili to specify what these complaints were about.

“What is this? Go ahead, Mr. Valeri. We were talking peacefully here,” Tsulukiani noted.

After that, Valeri Gelashvili explained what the content of the complaints was about, about which he told the chairwoman and members of the commission that “he did not deserve this.” According to Gelashvili, these are complaints that he filed with the prosecutor’s office against Saakashvili’s government during the Georgian Dream government, demanding the return of his property, although the cases have not been completed to this day. Tsulukiani asked if he had appealed the case, to which Valeri Gelashvili replied: “Should I sue my own government? What did I fight for in 2012?”

Tea Tsulukiani reminded Gelashvili thatshe had already won two instances in the aforementioned cases, which he could not have won during Saakashvili’s government.

In turn, Valeri Gelashvili noted that Saakashvili is already a thing of the past. Tsulukiani responded to Gelashvili’s statement as follows:

“There is no history that has gone. I don’t know how it looks from Vilnius, which today sanctions us all and puts us under sanctions. We didn’t deserve this from your second citizenship state either. I don’t know how it looks from there, but Saakashvili hasn’t gone anywhere, he’s trying to return. Therefore, we are working to prevent this from happening.

The rest is understandable. The Prosecutor's Office and the courts of Georgia are also listening to this hearing, and I hope that your other procedures will end as successfully as, I emphasize, the Georgian Dream government investigated the case of the attack on you and punished those who ordered it. Accordingly, this should also be noted loudly. Therefore, thank you to the Prosecutor's Office for investigating this case and I hope that the result you like will come soon for the case you have filed. Thank you for coming, and goodbye now! "- Tea Tsulukiani replied to Valeri Gelashvili and explained to the attendees and invited persons that "Here, the commission decides who and when will leave the hall!"