The Malaysian court will hold the hearing into the case of one of the 2 Georgian detained women, Darejan Kokhtashvili, 37 today.
Court held the hearing into case of another detained women, Gordadze, 26, in Kuala Lumpur on November 4. The court charged Gordadze for transporting of drugs, which envisages death penalty. The next hearing into the same case will be held next week.
The 2 Georgian women are kept on different islands. The detainees were not permitted to make a phone call.
Family members of the detained women are awaiting the verdict in Tbilisi. The Georgian Embassy in Ukraine is working with the Malaysian diplomats regarding the issue. The Georgian side hopes that the women will be averted death penalty through negotiations.
Kokhtashvili and Gordadze carried about 11 kilograms of drugs hidden in picture-frames. However, the detained women do not plead guilty into the crime. They claim that the cargo, which they carried, did not belong to them. The relatives put the responsibility on Eldar Davitiani.
The Georgian police detained Eldar Davitiani, husband of one of the detained Georgian women in Malaysia Babutsa Gordadze after he gave a testimony on November 5 through a 13-hour-long interrogation. Davitiani's family members confirmed his detention fact.
Davitiani arrived in Tbilisi from Turkey late on November 4. Presumably, his testimony included important details into the case through which it is possible that the detained women avert the death penalty. However, it is not yet known according to which article of Criminal Code he will be charged.