A preliminary hearing was held at the Tbilisi City Court regarding a new corruption case against former Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili. The court is currently reviewing the admissibility of evidence and must decide whether the case should proceed to a trial on the merits. The accused did not appear at the hearing.
After a search and interrogation, journalist Idris Yusupov was released and no charges were brought. However, mobile phones, laptops, and flash drives, including those belonging to his family members, were confiscated from him.
Yusupov is being held as a witness to the riots at the Makhachkala airport, although he has nothing to do with them. During the interrogation, he filed a motion to call lawyers Arsen Shabanov and Shamil Isaev, not refusing to testify, but wanting to testify with their participation.
Let us recall that the Russian authorities associate the riots at the airport against the arrival of Israeli citizens in Dagestan in connection with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with the activities of the destructive forces of the West and Ukraine. The head of Dagestan Melikov invited the detained participants to atone for their guilt by participating in the “SVO” in Ukraine.