Davit Kartvelishvili links NGOs to $624m and €35m money-laundering case

Davit Kartvelishvili, a member of the political group People’s Power, on Tuesday reacted to the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office announcement that one individual had been detained in connection with a $624 million and €35 million money-laundering case.

“After authorities required local NGOs to disclose the transparency of foreign funding, all of them refused to publish the purposes of their funds. Some closed down, others moved their registration abroad… In short, the radicals lost the ‘white money’ for their revolution. Today, we learned that the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Security Service have detained the person laundering these hundreds of millions. From the start, it was clear that the NGO cluster would be involved in this scheme, and it is good that the special services remain vigilant,” Kartvelishvili wrote on social media.