Any person involved in facilitating illegal migration should be considered to be undermining the overall development of Georgia, - Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili told journalists, responding to a question about the detention of a member of the National Movement by the Security Service.

As Shalva Papuashvili noted, migration is a challenge in the world.

"In general, the facts and the charges that have been brought concern illegal migration. On the one hand, this is a current challenge in the world, and on the other hand, this is precisely the issue that is important for visa-free travel with the European Union, so that Georgia does not allow illegal migration.

So, any person involved in facilitating illegal migration should be considered to be undermining the overall development of Georgia," - said Shalva Papuashvili.

For information, officers of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the State Security Service have arrested Lasha Tsanava, a member of the political council of the United National Movement, on charges of fraud. As Emzar Gagnidze, Director of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the State Security Service, stated at the briefing, Lasha Tsanava promised a foreign citizen to obtain a one-year residence permit in Georgia through his connections, in return for which he demanded 5,600 US dollars. According to him, an investigation is underway into the aforementioned criminal act (fraud) under Article 19,180, Part 2, Subparagraph “b” of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which provides for a sentence of 4 to 7 years of imprisonment.