"Irakli Gedenidze has no right to sell photos which he has taken during his professional duties, ‘" - Manana Manjgaladze, press spokeswomen said to GHN. What about the other questions this is a legislative matter and they are to be discussed with professionals," - she said.
For information, the investigation detected that Zurab Qurtsikidze has close ties with the Russian Federation's "GRU" (the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation formerly the Soviet Army General Staff of the Soviet Union). Particularly, he was connected with searched by Georgian law enforcing bodies A.Sinitsin and S.Okrokov.
"Gedenidze and Qurtsikidze were transmitting the sensitive information and photo materials for some payment to Moscow. They were transmitting the President's routs, and the scheme of President's administrative building; details of President's visits and meetings, as well other sensitive information," - the statement reads.