" Owning to high public interest, Ministry of Internal Affairs would like to clarify that on December 24, 2016, investigation was launched by Vake-Saburtalo police division of Tbilisi Police Department on the fact of threatening, crime envisaged by the article 151 of the Criminal Code. Investigation was based on the report of citizen D.G. who is the employee of P.A.M. club situated on Paliasvili Street.

According to the report D.G. was threatened in the bar by the unknown person with the firearm.

Soon after investigation was launched, employees of the bar – D.G. (questioned on December 24, 2016) and witness-L.A and J.D. (interrogated on December 26, 2016) stated that they were attacked by unknown person and threatened and pointed with the firearm. They also stated that the unknown person demanded to turn the music up in the bar.

Within the frames of investigation, on December 26, 2016 manager of the bar – T.B. submitted the video footage recorded by the surveillance cameras depicting the events that took place two days earlier. After studying the material the footage was added to the evidences attached to the criminal case.

At this stage all necessary investigative activities are being carried out including Habitoscopic and phonoscopic expertise in order to define the authenticity of the video footage. Further results of the investigation will be made public.

Investigation regarding the mentioned case is in progress under the article 15, envisaging term of imprisonment up to one year."