Tbilisi City Court found former Minister of Internal Affairs Irakli Okruashvili guilty of the case of the death of Amiran (Buta) Robakidze, an abuse of personal dignity of the victim, and the abuse of his power of office, and in the same case, the court acquitted former Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili in the case presented, which was appealed by the prosecutor’s office He’s going to sue.
According to the evidence examined in the trial, it was confirmed that on November 24, 2004, late at night, around 02 o’clock, in Tbilisi, on Akaki Tsereteli Avenue, near the Didube Pantheon, patrol police inspectors stopped a BMW car with the driver and five passengers.
During their detention and personal inspection, patrol-inspector Grigol Basheleishvili accidentally dropped a bullet from a table firearm and seriously injured a passenger leaving the car, Amiran (Buta) Robakidze, who died on the spot.
On the same night, the current Minister of Internal Affairs Irakli Okruashvili received information, which instructed the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who arrived at the scene of the incident, to save the image of the patrol police and to give the facts about the attack on the police by armed groups.
In accordance with the assignment given by Irakli Okruashvili, the high officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the scene of the incident put firearms and fighting materials into the possession of the deceased Amiran (Buta) Robakidze and the people sitting in the car with him.
Following this, under the instruction of the current Attorney General of Georgia, Zurab Adeishvili, the investigation was conducted in a legally incorrect direction, indicating the process of establishing falsified evidence and establishing the version developed by the high officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As a result of all this, based on falsified evidence, people sitting in a car were illegally prosecuted, and the deceased Amiran (Buta) Robakidze was declared a member of the criminal group. The above-mentioned actions caused a fundamental violation of the rights of the individual and the legal interest of the state and an insult to the victim’s personal dignity.
Irakli Okruashvili and Zurab Adeishvili have been charged under Article 332 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, “G” sub-clause (abuse of power of office by a state political official by insulting the personal dignity of the victim).
Tbilisi City Court found Irakli Okruashvili guilty of the charges presented and 7 years of imprisonment. The sentence based on amnesty was reduced, and the defendant was finally sentenced to 5 years and three months.
