A new study had confirmed a coordinated assault of disinformation against the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence with the involvement of not only domestic non-governmental organisations, but also their international donors. Such a statement made today the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.

His comments followed after the Georgian Dream conducted the study for establishing levels of transparency within domestic NGOs.

“It examined 474 domestic organizations, with the results saying 51% of the groups did not have a website, 62% had not specified information about their donors, 68% had not specified names of projects, 89% had not specified the amount of received grants, 97% had not published annual reports and 70% had not specified information about their teams.

This study also confirmed a coordinated assault of disinformation that has been going on in Georgia during these months, where not only NGOs but also their donors were involved, and assured the public and us behind closed doors that everything [about NGO spending] is transparent [and] known to people.

There was not a problem with the Law on Transparency, it aimed to make information about where the funds flow, for what purpose and what they are spent on public”, - said Shalva Papuashvili.

The law was adopted by the Parliament in May and requires groups “considered to be an organization pursuing the interests of a foreign power” - determined by more than 20 percent of their funding coming from abroad - to be registered in the public registry with the status and publicize their received funding.