General Director of Main Channel summoned for questioning into Giorgi Shakarashvili’s death case

16:18, 10.07.2020

Nika Gvaramia, General Director of Main Channel is summoned for questioning at Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) into death case of Giorgi Shakarashvili, a 19-year-old footballer.

MIA is interested in the information aired by the channel about Shakarashvili’s death circumstances.

The 17 individuals are detained into death case of 19-year-old footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili. All the 17 persons are kept in imprisonment.

Shakarashvili went missing while at a friend’s birthday party in Mtskheta, a town outside of Tbilisi, early on June 19. His dead body was found in the river Aragvi after a four-day search, on June 22.

Georgian General Prosecutor’s Office today published the conclusion of expertise conducted on corpse of Giorgi Shakarashvili, 19-year-old football player, based on which asphyxia by drowning in water caused Shakarashvili’s death. The expertise also concluded that the dead body had been inflicted multiple injuries before death by a flat object.

Justice/Crime

Giorgi Shakarashvili

Nika Gvaramia