During the parliamentary hearing on the Prosecutor’s Office 2025 annual report, “Gakharia for Georgia” MP Giorgi Sharashidze questioned Prosecutor General Giorgi Gvarakidze about alleged systemic political corruption, accountability in Tbilisi City Hall, and the omission of certain seized assets from the Prosecutor’s Office report.

Sharashidze argued that the report does not address what he described as systemic political corruption and asked whether the number of investigations launched by the Prosecutor’s Office against high-ranking officials indicates the existence of such a problem in Georgia.

“Unfortunately, you say nothing about systemic political corruption. My question is this: does the number of investigations initiated by your office, including against such high-ranking officials as a former prime minister, a defense minister, his deputy, and others, indicate that there is systemic political corruption in Georgia?

As an example, I would cite Tbilisi City Hall. Your report itself mentions the head of the Kindergarten Management Agency, who, as it turned out, was stealing money intended for children and taking it home.

The public is familiar with Kakha Kaladze’s statement that he is responsible only for himself. Therefore, we are interested in whether, as Prosecutor General, you agree with the Mayor of Tbilisi that he is responsible only for himself, and whether corruption crimes of such a scale discovered within City Hall constitute sufficient grounds to initiate criminal proceedings specifically against Kakha Kaladze,” Sharashidze said.

The MP also asked why the annual report does not mention assets allegedly seized from the residences of former Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili and former head of the State Security Service Grigol Liluashvili, including approximately $7 million in cash and valuable items.

“You speak here about the confiscation of property accumulated through corruption and provide examples, including real estate worth 825,492 GEL and vehicles worth 261,000 GEL. However, you do not mention much larger assets known to the public - namely, the approximately $7 million in cash and a significant quantity of valuable items seized from the homes of former Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili and former State Security Service head Grigol Liluashvili.

Could you explain why these assets were not included in the list of confiscated property? I am interested in why these assets are absent from the report while other, considerably lower-value assets are specifically mentioned. Larger assets connected to former senior officials are not referenced at all.

It may be that they were simply omitted from the report, but perhaps the Prosecutor General can address the matter directly. If these assets were confiscated, we would also like to know whether they were transferred to the state budget through the appropriate legal procedures,” Sharashidze stated.