“The fact-finding commission works actively, society follows testimonies confirming former leadership’s treacherous activities,” said Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili in the GPB Actual Topic program.

According to the Speaker, it is important to study and evaluate the ongoing crimes of the National Movement’s regime.

Shalva Papuashvili said the testimonies restore the “grave picture” of what society remembers “in fragments” and how Georgia lived before 2012.

The Speaker went on to say that the former regime was engaged in racketeering business, interfering in military decisions, it used the banking system and penitentiary facilities for its interests.

“We have heard the stories, which we heard before, how they saw the war as the PR instead of the field where correct decisions should be made. We heard about the abandoned Kodori Gorge, the territory that had been under the jurisdiction of the Georgian central government for years due to efforts by the local population.

More stories will follow. What we have already heard confirms that the same force continued activities against the country in different configurations.

We hear stories about Khazaradze being in the banking sector and racketeering business. The same people are in politics under the umbrella of the National Movement. Therefore, it is important to study and evaluate ongoing crimes committed by the National Movement while in or out of office,” he said.