By empty (2/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in Georgia have arrested the son-in-law of former President Eduard Shevardnadze on tax evasion charges. Gia Jokhtaberidze, head of Georgia\'s biggest mobile phone company, was arrested on board a flight to Paris. Prosecutor General Irakly Okruashvili, who personally oversaw the arrest, said Mr Jokhtaberidze had defied a warning not to leave the country pending the outcome of an investigation.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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