Bar Association Blames Penitentiary Establishment in Criminal Alliance with Investigator

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Bar Association and lawyer Kakhaber Mumladze blame penitentiary establishment in illicit cooperation with the investigators acting during previous government. Chairman of the Bar Association Zaza Khatiashvili and lawyer Kakhaber Mumladze said at the press-conference today, they will lodge a suit against the administration of the penitentiary establishment # 8 and investigator Merab Anjaparidze and request to start criminal prosecution against them. Namely, Zaza Khatiashvili clarified that investigator Merab Anjapraidze intimidated Gldani prison # 8 inmate Shalva Liluashvili, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. Zaza Khatiashvili said that Liluashvili requested to launch a case on his intimidation during imprisonment term and lawyer Kakhaber Mumladze assisted him in it. According to Khatiashvili, when collection of case materials started investigator Merab Anjaparidze, who worked on Liluashvili’s case, entered the prison without any status and right with the permission of the prison administration. Anjaparidze was involved in the prisoner’s case before April 2010. The case processing finished in this period and he requested entrance to the penitentiary establishment in order to intimidate the inmate.

“Convicted Shalva Liluashvili said that with the support of the lawyer Kakhaber Mumladze, he was drafting suit on fabrication of evidence in his case materials and intimidation, torture and inhuman treatment in prison. His teeth and nose were broken. Investigator Merab Anjaparidze threatened him against lodging suit on these allegations. Shalva Liluashvili filed a complaint to the Bar Association which showed that former investigator Merab Anjaparidze met the prisoner in the custody on May 1, 2013. The latter had finished Shalva Liluashvili’s case on April 30, 2010 and handed to the court for discussion. The convicted said he was preparing a lawsuit together with his lawyer Kakhaber Mumladze on fabrication of evidence in his case materials and his intimidation, torture and inhuman treatment. Merab Anjaparidze threatened him and warned it was useless to sue and threatened with creating problems for that,” Zaza Khatiashvili said.

 

According to the chairman of the Bar Association, the prisoner underlined that people participating in the torture of prisoners still freely enter custodies and exercise psychological oppression on the inmates and abuse their power that aims to camouflage the crime they had committed.

Zaza Khatiashvili said the prison administration is in criminal alliance with investigators who intimidated prisoners during previous government. On that ground, Khatiashvili appeals to the Minister of Penitentiary Sozar Subari to control the situation in the custodies. According to his information, the lawsuit against the prison administration and detective-investigator Merab Anjaparidze will be submitted today or tomorrow.

Lawyer of Shalva Liluashvili appealed to his former colleague and currently prosecutor general Archil Kbilashvili and asked to control criminal activities of investigators.

According to Khatiashvili and Mumladze, the prison administration demonstrated negligence to their professional duties when allowing Anjaparidze to enter the prison; and the investigator himself abused his professional duties. Khatiashvili and Mumladze added that both facts give ground to start criminal prosecution. Mumladze said convicted Shalva Liluashvili was judged for accidental murder. According to the lawyer, his health conditions are grave and after the investigator visited him, the inmate is under the doctor’s supervision.