Giorgi Bachiashvili [jailed former head of the Co-Investment Fund] claimed at Tbilisi City Court [which currently hears his case on the “Mtkvari HPP” project] that Anri Okhanashvili, Head of Georgia’s State Security Service [SSSG], was aboard the aircraft that “illegally brought” him back to Georgia.

“In violation of all norms, with a sack over my head, illegally, in breach of international and Georgian law, they brought me to Georgia. This was a special operation orchestrated by [Bidzina] Ivanishvili and carried out by the SSSG. Anri Okhanashvili was aboard the plane I was abducted with. The SSSG is investigating an international crime committed by itself”, - said Giorgi Bachiashvili.

As it known, he fled Georgia on March 4, days before the Tbilisi City Court sentenced him in absentia to 11 years in jail on cryptocurrency misappropriation and money laundering charges. On 27 May, the SSSG reported that he had been arrested near Georgia’s so-called “green border” with Armenia and Azerbaijan.