The Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman sent a letter to its Georgian colleague Grigol Vashadze demanding to stop the persecution of businessmen Roni Fiks and Zev Frenkel, GHN reports.
The IzRus reports that Liberman claims the accusations are groundless and having no proofs. The facts that the Georgian authorities have invited these businessmen to the country and then arrested them may become a serious obstacle to the normal development of the relations between two states. Now the Israeli businessmen are afraid to have any business affairs in Georgia. Liberman underlined that this will destroy all economic contacts between both states that were developed so speedily for the last several years.
In January 1 of 2010 the court hearing reopened in Tbilisi for the case of Fuks and Frenkel. In Israel they said that the case is illegitimate. Contrary the Georgian government has to pay off to the Israeli businessmen USD 100mn for loss. After its arrest Shimom Peres called to Georgian President asking him to release businessmen. The defense lawyer Mordekhay Ivan presents the case in the ECtHR and in EP. He believes that the case is a provocation of "Georgian government".