By empty (11/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia law enforcement bodies arrested another official on corruption charges. As a REGNUM correspondent reports, chair of sakrebulo (local parliament) in Pirveli village of Zestafon District (Georgia) Alexander Chulukhadze was detained; financial police accused him of financial fraud. According to the investigation, he abused power and within two years had been producing and applying falsified invoices; as a result of his activity the damage to the country was estimated as 10,000 lari.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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