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

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.