Members of the parliamentary majority and opposition MP Roman Gotsiridze engaged in a verbal clash during the annual report delivered by Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri.

The reason for the verbal altercation was the speech of Roman Gotsiridze, who questioned the acquisition of expensive aircraft by a private sector in Qatar, doubting this could have been a matter of international sanction circumvention.

As Gotsiridze stated, the Minister of Internal Affairs reported that the private sector bought an aircraft worth $22 million from Qatar.

“We don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s drones or helicopters, etc. The import of aircraft worth 22 million dollars has never happened before. And look, is this being transferred to Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan? Will these aircraft remain in Georgia? Who owns these 22 million dollars? We know that Georgia is becoming a way to export sanctioned goods to Russia,” Gotsiridze said.

The parliamentary majority protested this statement by the opposition MP. Even Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said: “We have reached the point where a former member of the United National Movement is spreading disinformation in parliament. We will not allow direct betrayal of the country’s interests in the session hall.”