Non-Governmental Organizations Found Spots on Presidential and Governmental Reserve Funds

Tbilisi. 14.12.06. Media News. Today, Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) held a presentation of the fifth intermediate report on the monitoring in the reserve funds of the Georgian president and the government in the "Tori" Hotel. 

The report on "Anticorruption Monitoring of the Financial Transparency and Public Institutions' was financed by Open Society Institute within the project frame.

As it was stated during the presentation, GYLA found out many facts of the blatant breaching of the law during the monitoring. Nino Lomojaria, lawyer for the Association, said that similar funds are set up for emergency occasions like natural disasters and unforeseen state duties.  However, only 1.265.255 GEL was spent from the governmental fund to reimburse the damage caused by natural disaster. This money is only 2 % of the whole fund budget. Nothing was spent from the presidential fund for the purpose.

According to the GYLA, the target of the fund is obscure and complicated. It is not run with legal regulation and thus it is totally impossible to control the fund.

Tamar Chugoshvili, lawyer for the association said that the president's fund spent 34 million GEL instead of 30 million in the first three quarters of 2006. The most of the fund is spent on the culture entertaining activities.

GYLA will make the next report in spring of the next year.