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and the Tbilisi Development Fund, therefore, the law on statepurchases did not apply. 332Attorney Lia Mukhashavria, Executive Director of HumanRights Priority, claims this is absurd, since no matter whatthe formal status of the fund is, if it uses the state budget forits actions, the state purchases legislation should be applicable.“The source of the funds is important; not who is using them,especially ones (funds) that are established by Tbilisi City Hall,”she says. Sulkhan Saladze, a lawyer at the Georgian YoungLawyers Association (GYLA) estimates that these Funds takeabout 15-20% of Tbilisi’s annual budget 333Several high ranking Tbilisi City Hall officials have been boardmembers of these Funds, including former vice Mayor MamukaAkhvlediani; Head of the Georgian Cultural Heritage Foundationand vice Mayor David Ninidze; Old Tbilisi Administrator, DavidAvaliani; and his deputy, Giorgi Sabanadze, who was the Head ofthe Tbilisi Development Foundation. 334While the quasi-legal status of these Funds was beingchallenged in court, the city continued to funnel propertyto the Tbilisi Development Fund (Old City Developmentand Reconstruction Fund was liquidated), which was verybusy turning that property over for very random prices. OnApril 19th 2011, Tbilisi City Hall transferred some 57 units ofproperty as a gift to the Tbilisi Development Fund, including ahistorical building on Aghmashenebeli 150. 335 One month later,the Fund sold 200 square meters of this property for $200,000to “Real Invest,” whose founder was the offshore “OldingtonInvest Corp.” 336 The representative of “Oldington Invest Corp” is332 Ibid333 Ibid334 Ibid335 Ibid336 Public Registry. Ministry of Justice of Georgia p.10 https://enreg.reestri.gov.ge/main.php?c=app&m=view_doc&doc_id=82255 Accessed 05/12/201282