`We have hired a lawyer who is prepared to protect the interests of our citizen; he has also promised us to help in searching another accredited lawyer for the other citizen of Georgia who is held on another island, because we have no authority to send our attorney to Malaysia due to the local legislation,` Nino Kalandadze said.

Georgian side hopes that the detention of one of the detainees` husband and the testimony he gave to the police here in Georgia will help the defence to prove that the two women were unwillingly involved in the drug trafficking network.