Who Owned Georgia English.pdf

happens to be a minister’s friend, cousin, or in-law; after all,this is a small country. This is precisely why transparency is soimportant. The public deserves the right to know the officialsthey elected are aboveboard. Although the government has donea lot to improve the transparency of contracts and ownership,much is still hidden behind a miasma of spin, legal distortion andshell companies.This little book takes a look at the most talked about privatesectors in Georgia in an attempt to untangle a very intricateplate of organizational spaghetti, in order to dispel rumors ofownership and collusion, or in some cases, substantiate them.It is mostly based on research carried out by TransparencyInternational Georgia (TI Georgia), The Georgian Young LawyersAssociation (GYLA), and Studio Monitor, a Georgian investigativedocumentary producer, as well as the annual Ombudsman Reporton Conditions on Human Rights in Georgia and the reports bythe local NGO, Human Rights Center. Consider this a travelguide into the amorphous labyrinth of who owned Georgia.6