As I’ve said before, we don’t preview our sanctions. US Ambassador Kelly told reporters when asked about the credibility of the BBC article about David Kezerashvili and whether the US is considering to impose sanctions on Kezerashvili.

“Well, as I’ve said before, we don"t preview our sanctions. This is a good example of how important investigative journalism, investigations by authorities are to provide the kind of information, both public source and non public, fully disclosed information, that form the basis for these kinds of measures.

Obviously, we go through our own very rigorous, thorough process to evaluate information before taking any kind of a step like this. And something like the BBC investigation is an important component. I would hope that the Georgian authorities have the opportunity to investigate their own allegations like this and this is the kind of information that can be a part of that”, - said Kelly Degnan.