Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri stated that the Ministry, Financial Police, and other law enforcement agencies were working hard to close all call centres in Georgia.

The minister refused to discuss the affiliated individuals and their linkages abroad, claiming that the ongoing inquiry would provide answers.

In response to the opposition’s claim that the government is “protecting” such call centres, Vakhtang Gomelauri stated that the government would have been “crazy” to investigate and uncover such offices.

The police investigated an office on Aghmashenebeli Avenue in Tbilisi after receiving an anonymous call claiming that a so-called call centre was operating there.

Prime Time News Agency reported that a call centre functioned in the office, which allegedly belonged to Giorgi Vashadze, leader of the Strategy Aghmashenebeli party, and Davit Arakhamia, a Russian-born Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur.

Giorgi Vashadze, for his part, pledged to hold everyone accountable for the “grave charge.”

“This is yet another deceptive special operation from the Russian Dream, totally funded by the swindling scam,” he claimed.