At one address, in one poor apartment, where there is actually no office, fake NGOs are registered that have no connection with non-profit activities in Estonia - it is important to find out from the European Union, its embassy and the embassies of EU member states whether they financed this fraudulent scheme with European money and whether they used fake NGOs to circumvent Georgian legislation, - the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, told journalists.
According to him, the sole purpose of these NGOs is to transfer money bypassing Georgian legislation.
According to Papuashvili, this is an international fraudulent scheme to bypass Georgian legislation and attempt to influence domestic and foreign policy in Georgia.
“What European Commissioner Kos was talking about, that they are looking for ways to bypass the law to provide funds to their NGOs, these are exactly the ways they are looking for, some of them have already been found, some are still being looked for. This is an international fraudulent scheme to bypass Georgian legislation to finance politics in Georgia and to influence domestic and foreign policy. We see how various European structures are involved in this and how it is facilitated. At one address, in one poor apartment, where there is actually no office, fake NGOs are registered that have no connection with non-profit activities in Estonia. The only purpose of these fake NGOs is to be a conduit for money bypassing Georgian legislation. The Georgian people have given us a mandate to regulate the issue of foreign money flowing into Georgian politics. In the 2024 elections, the Georgian people supported the transparency law and said that foreign money had nothing to do with Georgian politics - be it Russian, German, French, Estonian, Dutch or EU money. No foreign money has anything to do with Georgian politics. This violates the international legal order and this is something that undermines the reputation of the EU. Now it is important to find out from the EU, its embassy and the embassies of EU member states whether they financed this fraudulent scheme with European money and whether they used these fake NGOs to circumvent Georgian legislation and to bring in political money.
There is a simple rule in the Grants Law - if you want a foreign state or organization to spend money in Georgia on issues that affect the formation and implementation of domestic and foreign policy, ask the Georgian people. The bureaucrats in Brussels tell us that they are not interested in the Georgian people and are not going to ask the Georgian people "what should they spend their money on? They consider this country a subordinate, second-class state, into which they should enter and, like missionaries, force their ideas on us, and they should spend their money in Georgia. The bills were a response to this," said Shalva Papuashvili.