Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said the BBC investigation named former Defence Minister Davit Kezerashvili as a “swindler of an international scale.”

At the Cabinet meeting, the PM labelled the so-called call-centres case as a large-scale transnational crime and a “concerning fact.”

The Prime Minister went on to say that the evidence proved that the Georgian radical opposition was funded with stolen money.

“I would like to tell our European allies that they hold meetings with representatives of a party funded with the robbed money. This is an embarrassing fact, yet I am relieved that the truth has been discovered,” Garibashvili said.

Irakli Garibashvili advised the disruptive opposition to apologize to Georgian society as well as European allies. The PM commended the investigation and expressed hope that all those implicated in the scam would face criminal charges.

On April 12, the BBC Eye published a journalistic investigation and identified that former Defence Minister of Georgia Davit Kezerashvili organized a shadowy network of business people, standing behind a global scamming network of robbing European pensioners of more than a billion dollars.