We well remember the “collective regime’s” screeching about why such a virtuous and excellent person was sanctioned - it turns out there was evidence and the USA knew very well why it was sanctioning this outcast Partsakhaladze, Foreign Secretary of “Lelo - Strong Georgia” Grigol Gegelia stated, responding to reports that Georgia’s former Prosecutor General Otar Romanov-Partsakhaladze has formed a volunteer unit “Georgievsky” to fight on Russia’s side against Ukraine.

According to him, at the time when the USA was sanctioning Partsakhaladze and the President of the National Bank Natia Turnava “was putting the fate of the entire financial sector under a question mark in order to protect the financial well-being of this one person, then Turnava and this regime were indeed acting against Georgia’s interests and to protect a Kremlin agent.”

“This is yet another fairly clear confirmation of what Ivanishvili is, what he is like and what type of people he relies on in personnel policy. In whose hands key positions were during a very important transition in this country. This is yet another very clear and vivid example of the fact that key figures of this regime are at the same time Kremlin agents and are engaged in that intelligence or military operational activity which is in Russia’s national interests and which, of course, cannot be in line with Georgia’s national interests.

At the same time, we very well remember the ‘collective regime’s’ screeching about why such a virtuous and excellent person was sanctioned, that there was supposedly no evidence at all at the time when the USA was sanctioning him, and today we see that it turns out there was evidence and the USA knew very well why it was sanctioning this truly outcast Partsakhaladze. It turns out that when Mrs. Turnava was almost putting the fate of the entire financial sector under a question mark in order to protect the financial well-being of this one person, then Turnava and this regime were indeed acting against Georgia’s interests and to protect a Kremlin agent, because we all remember very well that precisely in order to protect this Russian agent Turnava was changing regulations, which almost put the entire financial sector under a very big blow, pressure and potential sanction measures,” Gegelia stated.