Former GD MP Jachvliani says surveillance cameras were installed in his apartment

Former MP of the ruling Georgian Dream party Soso Jachvliani says that he found surveillance cameras installed in his rented apartment in Kutaisi back in 2015, under the Georgian Dream authorities. 

 

That time the parliament was located in the western city of Kutaisi. 

 

Jachvliani has told the opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi that he lived in the apartment with another former Georgian Dream MP, Luka Kurtanidze, and that Kutranidze and his wife could confirm the presence of the cameras. 

 

“In 2015  Luka Kurtanidze (who is also an athlete) took a seat in parliament. I told Luka to come to my house, then I lived in Kutaisi. It was a three-room apartment with  two bedrooms. In the morning Luke gets up and calls me and shows me the video camera that was installed in his bedroom,” Jachvliani said.

 

Jachvliani says that the cameras are likely to be installed by the current government. However, he did not exclude the United National Movement to also stand behind. 

 

Illegal surveillance, used to blackmail people, was a common practice under the United National Movement government. 

 

However, NGOs say that the Georgian Dream authorities are also engaged with the illegal activity.