" International Transparency Georgia sees conflict of interests and possible facts of corruption in the Ministry of Culture . The non-governmental organization prepared 40-page report on the business interests of the high officials from Ministry and alleged corruption.

According to the authors of the report, Mikheil Fiorgadze, Davit Menabde and Kakhi Kandelaki gad a direct contracts without ant tender with 10 organizations and companies and were funding them.

NGO found irregularities in the process of funding jazz festival.