Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday said the country’s wanted former Defence Minister David Kezerashvili had “confirmed” he was an “oligarch” and was funding domestic opposition and TV channels with funds “stolen from European pensioners”.
The Government head was making a reference to a BBC report last month on Kezerashvili’s alleged links with a fraudulent scheme defrauding European pensioners.
In the programme, the public broadcaster said the Panama Papers – the 11.5 million documents leaked in 2016 to show financial dealings of wealthy individuals and officials across the world – had shown him to be at the centre of the scheme in which fake call centre operators pretending to represent legitimate agencies offered investment opportunities to their targets in Europe while defrauding them of…
