“They ask me whether I believe that they would have started the process of ‘destroying Irakli’ without Bidzina Ivanishvili? I think such a process would not have unfolded without his approval. However, I am also convinced that they managed to persuade him of the ‘necessity’ of the process through countless dirty rumors and ‘speculations,’” former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili’s brother-in-law, Aleksandre Tamazashvili, wrote on social media.

As he notes, “Irakli Garibashvili was convinced that the ‘Kintauri’ of Kobakhidze and Mdinaradze would not last long and that the influence and positions they had obtained through lies would burst like soap bubbles.”

“Many people are interested and ask me whether I believe that they would have started the process of ‘destroying Irakli’ without Bidzina Ivanishvili? I think such a process would not have unfolded without his approval. However, I am also convinced that they managed to persuade him of the ‘necessity’ of the process through countless dirty rumors and ‘speculations.’

I know that it is difficult for the public to understand why Irakli focuses on Kobakhidze and Mdinaradze rather than directly on Bidzina Ivanishvili. I do not know what Irakli thinks about this, but I will tell you my own opinion based on what I know and what I have witnessed with my own eyes.

On October 17, when armed special forces stormed our homes in a Hollywood-style operation - 30 to 50 people at each house - they carried everything out in such a way as to provoke aggression from us and make us publicly express our distress. It would have been legitimate for us to defend our rights by any lawful means.

I told Irakli that we needed to fight, that when people dear to you ‘sacrifice’ you, defending yourself is legitimate, and therefore I urged him to defend ourselves. He firmly stopped me and said: ‘I will not go against the person who has done so much good for me and my family.’ He added that if Bidzo’s arresting or neutralizing him would be useful to him in any way and he considered it necessary, he was prepared to sacrifice his own freedom.

He told me: ‘Today, only Bidzo can save our country and lead it to peace from these difficult global wars, and by speaking out about the personal injustice against me, I would interfere with this process.’ I could not answer anything. I realized there was no point in adding anything further from my side.

Irakli was convinced that the ‘Kintauri’ of Kobakhidze and Mdinaradze would not last long and that the influence and positions they had obtained through lies would burst like soap bubbles. And this is what is happening.

However, the tandem, which was preparing to leave, wanted to completely destroy Irakli and came up with a dirty plan: in the name of Mr. Bidzina, they sent him the message we saw in the letter - complete destruction not only of Irakli but of the entire family, especially the children.

Imagine what their future would have looked like if their father had voluntarily admitted to crimes that did not exist and turned his own children into the children of a confessed corrupt official. This was no longer merely a matter of sacrificing himself.

Since the letter was sent - from the beginning of July - we have made numerous attempts to find out the truth and prevent all of this from happening, but we were unable to do so,” Aleksandre Tamazashvili wrote on social media.