Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct. 31
By Nana Kirtzkhalia - Trend:
The chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the Georgian Parliament Irakli Sesiashvili urges the state security council to declassify the documents confirming the transfer of funds to the lobbying firms during the National Movement's activity.
Sesiashvili said that the public must know the purpose of spending 100 million lari ($ 1 = 1.76 lari). The representatives of the previous authorities transferred these funds to the lobbying firms from 2008 to 2012.
"People must know whether these funds were spent for the interests of the country or narrow political interests," he said. "We transferred only three million lari from 2012 up till now. One million was returned to the budget in the form of income tax."
The new authorities spent over $3 million on lobbyists during a year, according to the NGO.
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