The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia began checking the allegations of the authorities' involvement in the kidnapping of Afgan Mukhtarli

Baku/01.08.22/Turan: On August 1, the Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia launched an investigation into the statement of the former deputy head of the State Security Service Soso Gogashvili, who stated that the country's authorities were involved in the kidnapping of Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli in Tbilisi in 2017.

He also spoke about the facts of bribery of voters during the parliamentary elections. The prosecutor's office has begun checking all these facts, Georgian media report.

* Mukhtarli was kidnapped and forcibly taken to Baku by the orders of  the founder of "Georgian Dream" Bidzina Ivanishvili, Soso Gogashvili, former deputy head of the State Security Service of Georgia, said on July 26.

Gogashvili claims that all evidence in this case was destroyed by the Operational and Technical Department of the State Security Service.

In May 2017, the Georgian security forces, having kidnapped Afgan Mukhtarli at the border, handed him over to the Azerbaijani side. Then the journalist was taken to Baku in January 2018 and sentenced to six years in prison on charges of illegally crossing the border, smuggling and resisting a representative of the authorities. ---0--