Bidzina Ivanishvili's Lawyers Accuse European Media Outlets of Being 'Monopolized' Amid Credit Suisse Dispute
By Liza Mchedlidze
Thursday, February 9, 2023
The legal company, which protects the interests of Bidzina Ivanishvili, criticized the European media outlets for 'censoring' articles after they began criticizing Credit Suisse's management, arguing that the European media has also been 'monopolized'.
They mentioned the case of last year when, according to them, the Swiss media refused to publish an article criticizing the bank's management.
"As of today, we can say that we received another sad signal, this time already outside of Switzerland, from the European/British media, which published articles without any delay when the content was about heavy criticism of Credit Suisse, and when it came to information specifically from the bank's management, the deliberate destruction of the reputation of the banking system of the Swiss bank, the events developed as follows:
First, and from the letter we sent, the messages that specifically related to the bank's management were completely removed, and as a result of the next communication, the media changed, faded all the accents that were related to the same thing, the criticism of Credit Suisse's management," the lawyer's letter states.
In addition, the letter reads that Bidzina Ivanishvili intends to 'give a chance' to the media to publish the next information.
"It is understood that the information we provided was not pulled out of thin air and was based on facts and reports from the Swiss banking regulator. To say the least, a denialist media outlet could have easily verified the information, even with the bank.
Instead, we refused to publish the information in its initial form, Which only leads to surprise and disappointment. It is really disappointing that the European media has also been monopolized. Nevertheless, Mr. Ivanishvili intends to continue to give the relevant media outlets a chance to publish further information and letters that are already planned to be made public, only with the reservation that if the same media outlets will also publish information that has been blocked until now in an unedited format," the statement reads.
