Intermediate Report Research of Pre-election Period - The Human ...

the account holders needed the money for the improvement of their social conditions.
Simultaneously, they have not transferred the money to another account because it was
sequestered. “The biggest violation in this case is that citizens are extremely poor and certain
people assist them. However, government blocks this allowance to reach the people,” Nestan
Londaridze said.
The lawyer added that another violation is that citizens had not received any notifications
about interrogation beforehand.
Currently, accounts of all citizens linked with foundation Komagi are sequestered. 67
49. Members of the Coalition Freedom of Choice got hold of a memory stick of Lanchkhuti
district police officer Shmagi Uratadze, which contained various information and exposed
blatant and illegal interference of the police in the pre-election process.
These materials prove that police watches and collects information about political opinions
of local inhabitants, personal data [personal ID numbers, phone numbers] of local leaders of
opposition parties, public servants and their family members without relevant court
sanctions.
The most astonishing fact is that police officer had collected information about those people,
who have satellite dish antennas at homes, as well as data about local opposition leaders who
“supervises introduction of dish antennas in the district,” and data about “people working in
the company” of Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the opposition political coalition Georgian
Dream. We have grounded doubt that police officer Uratadze was performing this “hard job”
based on the instruction of his leadership. If this fact is proved, it will demonstrate that law
enforcement agency is performing anti-constitutional activities and implements function of a
political police that serves interests of the ruling party instead the law.
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