Former United National Movement MP Givi Targamadze has voiced his disagreement with the statement issued by the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia regarding the assassination attempt on his life in 2016.

In an interview with the GPB First Channel, Targamadze asserted that Shota Chichiashvili, who was opposed to the United National Movement at the time, could not have participated in the 2016 meeting with former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Gia Lortkipanidze and Mikheil Saakashvili in Ukraine. He also doubted that Lortkipanidze and Saakashvili would have engaged Chichiashvili in spying during that period.

While Targamadze does not question the involvement of Chichiashvili, Darcho Khechuashvili, and an individual named Dima in the explosion of his car, he claims that their actions were orchestrated at the behest of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the honorary chair of the Georgian Dream party. He contends that Chichiashvili had connections to Tamaz Tamazashvili, the father-in-law of former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, and insists that the attack was a plot by Georgian Dream to instil fear in society just five days before the 2016 parliamentary elections.

When questioned about the evidence supporting his assertion that Georgian Dream was responsible for the explosion, Targamadze stated that he had already presented this information to the Prosecutor’s Office.

“It is utterly cynical to suggest that Saakashvili and Lortkipanidze ever met with Chichiashvili. Chichiashvili attempted to kill Lortkipanidze twice in Odesa but failed. He then travelled to Kyiv with the same objective and was ultimately apprehended by Ukrainian law enforcement,” Targamadze remarked.

Earlier today, Prosecutor Amiran Guluashvili claimed that Saakashvili, lacking trust in Targamadze, had assigned Chichiashvili the task of spying on him in 2016, enlisting Khechuashvili in the scheme.