Top managers dissatisfied with non-compliance with US sanctions left the Bank of Georgia

The regulator refused to block the accounts and access to financial transactions of former Prosecutor General Otar Partskhaladze, who came under US sanctions due to ties with RUSSIA. After this, three vice-presidents of the bank decided to resign from the post of Papun Lezhava

Vice-presidents of the NATIONAL BANK of Georgia Papuna Lezhava and Archil Mestvirishvili resigned after the regulator refused to block the accounts and access to financial transactions of former Prosecutor General Otar Partskhaladze, who came under US sanctions due to ties with Russia. According to the Mtavari TV channel, Lezhava submitted his resignation to the Speaker of Parliament Shalva Papuashvili.

And about. President of the National Bank Natia Turnava confirmed Lezhava’s resignation. And she clarified that he wrote to her about his decision in an email. Turnava did not answer the question whether the vice president’s departure was related to the bank’s decision regarding Partskhaladze.

Mestvirishvili announced his decision to leave his post on FACEBOOK (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist in Russia and is banned). “Friends and colleagues, I am leaving my post at the National Bank,” he said. Mestvirishvili explained to BMG: “I cannot be part of a decision that I do not influence and with which I do not agree.”

Later, Tabula reported that another vice-president of the National Bank, Nikoloz Gagua, left his post.

Partskhaladze, after a short stint as prosecutor general, was forced to resign in 2013 when it turned out that he had a criminal record in Germany. He came under US Treasury sanctions related to Russia on September 14. The State Department calls him a Georgian-Russian oligarch with ties to Alexander Onishchenko, whom US authorities consider an FSB officer. Washington believes that Onishchenko probably helped Partskhaladze obtain a Russian passport. He regularly traveled to Russia, where he was used to “influence Georgian society and politics in favor of Russia,” the State Department said.

The National Bank supported Partskhaladze, pointing out that “every citizen of Georgia is protected by the Constitution.” “The National Bank of Georgia, guided by the Constitution of Georgia and the principle of innocence, believes that international sanctions cannot be applied to a citizen of Georgia until a guilty verdict is rendered in a Georgian COURT in the relevant case,” the regulator said.

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