It is understandable that you lack the judgment and have suffered the degree of degradation that society is witnessing now, making yourself a laughingstock in the eyes of this country’s enemies. The Georgian Dream team showed you leniency, did not abandon you completely, and tried to pull the wool over the public’s eyes. However, everyone in this country knows where and through what kind of stolen income you managed to amass your wealth,” Vladimer Bozhadze, a member of the European Socialists and a member of parliament, writes, addressing former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, who is currently in prison.

Bozhadze asks Garibashvili where he obtained so much money and jewelry. The MP says that Irakli Garibashvili’s “moral degradation is even more regrettable.”

“Mr. Irakli, just as it is very regrettable for many people, it is also very regrettable for me personally that someone who was once a member of our team and the country’s prime minister has fallen to the point where you are now inventing unbelievable conspiracy theories and, relying on radical agents and their partisan television channels, are trying to force lies upon society. However, despite your attempts - publishing letters from prison filled with empty, grandiose statements, surrounding yourself with Inashvili and agents like him who are willing to go to any lengths, and developing absurd conspiracy theories - you will not achieve your goals.

It is understandable that you abused the trust placed in your political party for your personal well-being and seriously damaged the team. It is also understandable that you lack the judgment and have suffered the degree of degradation that society is witnessing now, making yourself a laughingstock in the eyes of this country’s enemies. However, you will not succeed in diverting attention from the main issue. You should understand very well that no matter how hard you try, and no matter what unbelievable stories you concoct together with agents and hired propagandists willing to do anything, you still cannot escape the main question.

In your published letters, you claim that someone staged a dirty provocation against you and demanded that you admit to a corruption charge that you did not commit. Against this backdrop, the whole of Georgia learned that you own property worth $12 million, the origins of which no one knew anything about. At the very least, you cannot deny that you yourself admitted to the legalization of illicit income and went to prison for it. It is also easy to understand that the Georgian Dream team showed you leniency, did not abandon you completely, and tried to pull the wool over the public’s eyes. However, everyone in this country knows where and through what kind of stolen income you managed to amass your wealth. Against this backdrop, your moral degradation is even more regrettable, but you still cannot escape the main issue.

According to your position, the only crime you committed was failing to declare your income, for which you accepted legal responsibility. However, that is only one part of the issue. Based on the charge you yourself admitted to, you must explain where you obtained the millions of dollars in illicit income that you were secretly attempting to legalize.

Logically, any person who speaks about dirty provocations, being falsely accused of taking bribes, and being forced to admit to a nonexistent corruption case would, in order to prove their innocence, explain in detail where they accumulated $12 million worth of assets, why they kept them at home, and how they acquired gold bars, jewelry, and luxury watches worth millions.

Therefore, the main question, one that you cannot escape through any amount of sensational statements, is where you accumulated the wealth that you failed to declare.

Mr. Irakli, after the numerous meaningless, absurd and scandalous letters you have already published, in which you have not presented even a single specific fact, perhaps you could address the public with another letter in which you thoroughly explain where you obtained so much money and jewelry, which, I emphasize once again, you were hiding at home?

Answer your former supporters - the people who voted for you and trusted you for years. Answer the Georgian people,” Bozhadze writes on Facebook.