"The mother of a jailed former aide to Georgia's de facto leader, Bidzina Ivanishvili has had her bank accounts frozen after she publicly accused Ivanishvili of pursuing a vendetta against her son. The prosecutor's office in Georgia acted against Marina Ramazashvili and her husband, Alexander, on the same day that the Guardian published an interview with her in which she criticised the billionaire and called for help from the west."
"Bachiashvili fled Georgia in the middle of his trial over the alleged theft but in May he was taken from his place of hiding in Abu Dhabi by men who claimed they were from Interpol and flown with a bag over his head back to Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. The Georgian government subsequently issued a press statement in which it claimed it had found and arrested Bachiashvili near Georgia's border with Armenia and Azerbaijan."
Marina Ramazashvili, 65, had her bank accounts frozen after publicly accusing Bidzina Ivanishvili of pursuing a vendetta against her son, Giorgi Bachiashvili. Prosecutors acted against Ramazashvili and her husband on the same day she gave a critical interview and called for Western help. Bachiashvili is serving 11 years for allegedly stealing $42m in cryptocurrency from Ivanishvili; Transparency International described the case as devoid of legal and factual grounds. Bachiashvili claims punishment for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine and alleges he was abducted from Abu Dhabi and flown to Tbilisi. Prosecutors said the asset freezes form part of a money-laundering investigation.
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