Gharibashvili's Wife's Brother: Leasing Bakuriani Forest Was Necessary for Security Reasons
By The Messenger Staff
Monday, January 31, 2022
Alexander Tamazashvili, the brother of Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili's wife, responds to the transfer of the forest to his sister in Bakuriani and notes that the lease of the territory was necessary for security reasons.
“‘Gifting the forest’ caused a great stir. Society has been led into believing that Garibashvili and his family appropriated the Bakuriani forest.
The reality is this: half a hectare of land, which can be called half a forest and which is adjacent to a residential house, due to security, it became necessary to lease it, on which neither construction nor of course cutting of trees, on the contrary, is an obligation to maintain and annually In the budget of a solid amount of input.
I wonder how sincere and genuine the protest is from the team members and their favorite journalists who sold more than 3,000 hectares of forest in 2009 alone to cut down and reap economic benefits while in power,” Tamazashvili wrote on Facebook.
The Prime Minister's wife was given 5,958 square meters of state-owned land in Bakuriani with the right of the special use of the forest for 49 years. According to the Public Registry, his representative applied to the National Forest Agency on 28 December 2021 for registration of the right of origin related to the use and ownership.
The annual starting price of the area was GEL 5,958. One person expressed interest and he also won the same auction with a bid of GEL 6,255.
