OC Media: Former Ivanishvili confidant flees Georgia and vows to ‘expose’ him

The following news was reported in OC Media:

Giorgi Bachiashvili, former aide to Georgian Dream’s founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, has announced that he has fled Georgia and threatened to produce an ‘exposé’ about the billionaire.

Bachiashvili, who was already facing two criminal cases at the time of departure, said he decided to leave the country due to safety risks, but vowed to continue his fight against the billionaire founder of the ruling party.

Bachiashvili served as the general director of the Georgian Co-Investment Fund — founded by Ivanishvili in 2013 shortly after coming to power — until 2019, when he moved to the position of chair of the fund’s advisory board.

Once close partners, their paths diverged in recent years, accompanied by investigations against Bachiashvili — both of which involve Ivanishvili — which he considered politically motivated.

‘I would have been completely defenceless in prison, face to face with Ivanishvili’s executioners’, Bachiashvili wrote in a Facebook post announcing his departure on Tuesday.

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