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(10%). 290 Like Lemise, Interplast has made great profits turningover real estate and also had property registered as State debtsseized by the government from Cartu Bank. 291Before the Rose Revolution, some of the best restaurantsin the city were located on the east bank of the Mtkvari River;across from Tbilisi’s Old Town. The Wishing Tree, Rikhe, Ushba,Mama Zoya and others sat on prime real estate. Then one Aprilday in 2006, the bulldozers arrived. Tsitsino Bochorishvili wasone of the property owners that had a building demolished. Inher case, authorities ignored administrative proceedings or anyother requirements provided by law. 292Shortly after David Kezerashvili’s Financial Police launchedtax investigations into the restaurants and shut them down inthe winter of 2005/2006, their property soon ended up in thehands of the finance ministry. It turned the property over to theOld City Rehabilitation and Development Fund and the TbilisiDevelopment Fund, two slippery non-commercial legal entitiesestablished by the Tbilisi city government. They both hadidentical statute objectives and shared many of the same boardmembers, most of whom were heads of executive municipalbodies and various city services. They received money fromthe Tbilisi City budget for various activities, but we don’t knowhow much because the funds were set up as non-governmentalorganizations. This was used as an excuse to avoid disclosurerules that govern the state budget, despite the fact that theproperty that they were managing was delegated by the state fora specific purpose. Therefore, the company should have complied290 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of <strong>Georgia</strong> 03/01/2012 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=mortgage&m=get_output_by_id&scandoc_id=364504&app_id=420727 Accessed 12/12/2012291 Minister’s Friend 2. Studio Monitor’s Investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQx5wFvAxCY Accessed 12/12/2012292 Public Defender Report 2007 p.130 http://www.ombudsman.ge/files/downloads/en/rcdhxltppxuyaxakjjlc.<strong>pdf</strong> Accessed 05/12/201272

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