The General Director of Rustavi 2 TV, Nika Gvaramia will be charged within 48 hours. He is kept at pre-detention isolator of Police Main division.
The Lawyer Mamuka Chabashvili visited Gvaramia in Isolator last night.
Founder of Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company Giorgi Karamanashvili has released a special statement regarding the detention of the director general of the company.
"We, founders of the TV-channel consider the detention of the director general of Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company as a direct pressure on the independent media organization and an attempt to hamper work of the TV-company.I`m not in Georgia now but I`ll return to Tbilisi as soon as possible. Meanwhile, I address all the employees of Rustavi 2 - to continue working regardless of the current situation in order to avoid creating any kind of danger to the proper functioning work of the channel", - the statement says.
Employees of Rustavi 2 Broadcasting Company have released a statement as well.
"At 11 a.m. today the director general of the channel arrived at the investigation service of the ministry of finance for interrogation as soon as he had been summoned. He does not refuse to cooperate with law enforcers in favor of the investigation process.
Therefore, the TV-company addresses investigation service of the ministry of finance and the chief prosecutor`s office to release the director general of the TV-channel before the investigation is over and not to make a plea for a pre-trial detention as a preventive measure.
Otherwise, the detention of the director general of Rustavi 2 will be considered as an attempt to hamper the work of the TV-channel and put pressure on it.
We address relevant state agencies to allow the director general of the TV-company to continue his work", - the statement reads.
Former energy and finance minister Alexander Khetaguri and Nika Gvaramia, who is now director general of Rustavi 2 TV and was a government member till late 2009, as well as three other persons have been arrested for alleged corruption yesterday. They have been arrested after questioning in the investigations unit of the Ministry of Finance.
