Tbilisi. Gigi Ugulava, whom the court dismissed from Tbilisi
Mayor's post in connection with the state funds embezzlement case, has offered
his mother- in-law's apartment as a bail for his release from detention for the period of investigation - Ugulava's
lawyer, Gogita Gabaidze, told journalists.
On December 21, Tbilisi City Court ruled
out GEL50thousand (US$29thousand) bail as a restrain measure in the case of
embezzlement of the state funds.
"Gigi Ugulava's bail will be secured
through his mother-in-law's one-bedroom apartment...A corresponding supporting
document has been already submitted to the Prosecutor's Office," Gabaidze
said.
Ugulava and some other high-rank
municipality officials have been charged with 'elaboration of a criminal scheme
for financing United National Movement's (UNM-former ruling party, led by
then-President, Mikheil Saakashvili) 2012 parliamentary election campaign from
Tbilisi Development Fund.
In particular, Ugulava, as well as Tbilisi
Vice Mayor, David Alavidze, ex-Head of Tbilisi Development Fund, Giorgi
Sabanadze; ex-Chief of Tbilisi Municipality Procurement Service, Alexander
Tabuashvili; ex-Head of Old Tbilisi District Council, David Avaliani and his
deputy, Dmitry Chkhaidze, have been accused of embezzlement of GEL48 million
(approximately US$28million).
This is already the third criminal case
involving Gigi Ugulava. Ugulava was earlier accused of misappropriation of
Imedi TV and creation of fictive jobs for the UNM's activists.
Until recently, Ugulava was among not so
many former ruling party representatives, who managed to maintain their posts
in the government structures.