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prosecutor’s office believes the dishes were being used to bribevoters, as Global TV was the sole broadcaster of Ivanishvili’s TV9.The State Audit Agency fined Ivanishvili 63.1 million GEL. 97Some television station owners complain the governmentinterferes with their licensing procedures through the GeorgianNational Communications Commission (GNCC). The GNCC 98 wasestablished in 2000 as an independent regulatory body to licenseand oversee the operations of Georgian telecommunication andbroadcasting companies. It monitors and regulates electroniccommunications, including the compliance of license holdersto laws on advertising. The President of Georgia appoints the5-member board, by approval of parliament, and is supposed tobe fully independent and not subordinate to any state bodies.As noted, sometimes the GNCC works zealously to regulatecommunications, while other times it doesn’t work at all. That’sbecause “independent” is a highly subjective concept in Georgia.Before Irakli Chikovani became Chairperson of the GeorgianNational Communications Commission (GNCC) in the summerof 2009, he was the director 99 and co-owner of Rustavi 2 100 . Inhis first year as Chair, he continued to co-own MediaHouse,one of the country’s two major media sales houses, which soldadvertising time on Rustavi 2, Mze and several other channels. 101In 2010, Chikovani sold MediaHouse and its clients to GeneralMedia the new, number one media sales company. 10297 Global TV’s Satellite Dish Antennas Seized. Civil.ge http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=24908 Accessed on 14/11/201298 Georgian National Communication Commission http://www.gncc.ge/?lang_id=ENG Accessed on 05/12/201299 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of Georgia Page 149 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=app&m=view_doc&doc_id=76222 Accessed on05/12/2012100 Changes Among Rustavi 2 TV Shareholders. Civil.ge http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=19944 Accessed on 14/11/2012101 General Media and Outdoor.ge - Two Monopolists of Advertising Businesshttp://netgazeti.ge/GE/84/business/7414/ Accessed 05/12/2012102 Ibid27