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a fantasy settlement just south of Anaklia with the aim of beingwest Georgia’s economic center and the second largest city in thecountry. Karchava says the ministry of economy confiscated hiscompany’s property without notice and sued it for nearly $100million in penalties. 316By law, when registering your title to property you can submit a paper (hard)version, or an electronic version of cadastre drawings, which is moretrustworthy. However, the Public Registry does not have the means tocompare these two drawings and prevent land plots from overlapping. It onlystarted forming its electronic projection base in February 2010. The statebegan to register its title to the property electronically, even to property thathad already been registered on paper to a private person.With such a system you may wake up one day to find yourproperty registered to somebody else, and that somebody else justmight be the state. 317On August 8, 2011, Marina Mekvabishvili submittedelectronic cadastre drawings of her land to the LanchkhutiPublic Registry to specify its boundaries, as she had heard thestate was registering private property to its title. She owned a1,500 square meter plot in the village of Grigoleti on the BlackSea, which was registered in 2004 with a hard cadastre copy. OnAugust 12, the Public Registry informed her that this propertywas actually overlapping state land. Mekvabishvili’s propertyhappens to be where a 6-harbor port is planned to be built byBlack Sea Products, a company which acquired 35,000 squaremeters of land from the state without auction. 318The founders of Black Sea Products are Khvicha Makatariaand Nodar Gigineishvili, who also owns the Capital Group, which316 Anaklia-Port – The Century Project. Besik pipia. Georgia and the Worldhttp://www.geworld.ge/View.php?ArtId=2134&lang=en&Title=%E2%80%9CAnaklia-Port%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-The-Century-Project Accessed15/11/2012317 Stripped Property Rights in Georgia. Third Report. p. 9 Georgian youngLawyers Association, Transparency International - Georgia, GeorgianRegional Media Association, Association Green Alternative. http://transparency.ge/sites/default/files/post_attachments/StrippedPropertyRights_April2012_Eng_0.pdf Accessed 05/12/2012318 Ibid Page 1278