According to the Chief Prosecutor’s Office, the former
Deputy Head of Gldani-Nadzaladevi Unit of the Main Unit of the Ministry of
Internal Affairs of Georgia, Giorgi Oniani was arrested by the Office of the
Chief Prosecutor of Georgia on the basis of the Court Ruling for the excess of
official authority, service-related falseness and falsification of evidences
concerning the especially grave offence as well as the fact of illegal
deliberate deprivation of liberty.
The investigation ascertained that in 2011, for the
purpose of hindering the activities of the Political Coalition “Georgian Dream”
and intimidating the persons having different political views, G. Oniani
illegally arrested Davit Shatirishili - the Manager of “DAO-PRINT” LLC. By that
time, “DAO-PRINT” LLC was producing the T-shirts with the logos of “Georgian
Dream”.
The aforesaid served
as the reason for the arrest of D. Shatirishvili, which was confirmed to the
latter by G. Oniani after the arrest of the person referred to above.
With the purpose of
falsifying the evidences on the criminal case against Davit Shatirishvili into
the fact of purchase and retention of narcotic substances in especially large
quantity, Giorgi Oniani submitted to the investigator the narcotic substance cannabis
and instructed the latter to reflect into the criminal case files the fact of
seizing the narcotic substance cannabis during the personal search of Davit
Shatirishvili, which in fact has never occurred.
In result of the efforts of Giorgi Oniani, Davit
Shatirishvili was charged for the purchase and retention of narcotic substance
under Article 260 §1 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which entails the
deprivation of liberty for the term up to 11 years as the penalty.
The criminal case was submitted to the Court for the
purposes of hearing the merits of the case. The
investigation is still pending on the criminal case concerned under Article 25,
147 §1, Article 333 §1, Article 25, 341 and Article 3691 §3
of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which is punishable by the deprivation of
liberty for the term up to 8 years.
