The Georgian Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee continues holding meetings with judicial candidates for the Supreme Court of Georgia. Lawmakers today have questions to Shalva Tadumadze, acting General Prosecutor.

The opposition finds Tadumadze’s diploma and law education as questionable and claims that the candidate does no right to be neither Judge nor General Prosecutor.

Giga Bokeria, oppositional MP asked Tadumadze to name three persons who studied with him and his professors. Tadumadze answered that he had no permission to reveal their identities.

Otar Kakhidze, a lawmaker of European Georgia inquired about Tadumadze’s academic grade in History of Law at the university. Tadumadze’s answer was ‘satisfactory.’

For a year and a half, a group of people has been trying to create a legend as if the country has an uncertified General Prosecutor, Shalva Tadumadze, one of the judicial candidates for Supreme Court said at the sitting of the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, where the lawmakers are holding an interview with him.

Shalva Tadumadze was asked about the diploma by Mamuka Mdinaradze, Chairman of the “Georgian Dream” fraction. He asked why the University, he was graduated from, does not have the legal name, before or after 2003, which is mentioned in his diploma.

“I don’t know what kind of reorganization this university has undergone since 2003, but Tbilisi Humanitarian University operated under the name, which is written in the diploma. . . . For 18 years there has never been a single document that would have cast doubt on my diploma since I have always been an active lawyer,” Shalva Tadumadze said.