GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT DEPUTY SUSPECTED OF TAX EVASION
By empty (4/19/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian Sugar General Director Tengiz Gogichashvili, who was elected to the Georgian parliament on 28 March on the list of the opposition Industrialists-New Rightists bloc, was stripped of his parliamentary immunity on 17 April at the request of the Prosecutor-General\'s Office, which suspected him of failing to pay 89,000 laris ($43,790) in value-added taxes. Leaders of the bloc denounced that ruling at a press conference the same day, accusing the authorities of staging \"a cheap show\" to distract public attention from their own failures. On 19 April, Gogichashvili agreed to pay some 233,500 laris to the state budget in order to avoid being remanded in custody; he continues to deny the charges against him.Visit also
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