Otar Abesadze, a senior official of the City Hall detained for bribery , will be charged tomorrow.

At present he is in the preliminary detention isolator. According to his lawyer Irma Chkadua, the detainee has a serious psychological condition and keeps silent. ,Irma Chkadua does not have answer to the question. whether Otar Abesadze is guilty or not. His family members are convinced that the high ranking officials of the City Hall are innocent.

Otar Abesadze was detained late last night. He was charged with taking a bribe. As reported, Otar Abesadze promised certain citizens to assist in accelerated issue of a permit for arranging the café Tivi and relevant infrastructure and took 3,000 US dollars in return.

After detention, the City Hall responded to the detention of its employee by the Anti-Corruption Agency of the State Security Service and noted that Otar Abesadze was a contract employee.

According to the City Hall, the government of the capital will not leave any fact of crime without response and will cooperate with the investigation.

"We want to state with full responsibility that the government of the capital will not leave any fact of crime without response and will cooperate with the investigation.In addition, we would like to emphasize that the government of the capital has fought against corruption since the first day of coming to power.

We call on all our employees not to abuse their power and not to damage the dignity of other civil servants working in the City Hall," the statement reads
The opposition blames the City Hall for misinformation and publishes the documents according to which the high ranking official was a staff member. In addition, Otar Abesadze is an active member of "Georgian Dream".

Opposition parties say the facts of corruption and bribery in Tbilisi City Hall are frequent