VARDOSANIDZE v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 1 September 2014 FOURTH SECTIONApplication no. 43881/10Lali VARDOSANIDZEagainst Georgialodged on 26 June 2010STATEMENT OF FACTSThe applicant, Ms Lali Vardosanidze, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1961 and lives in Kutaisi.A.  The circumstances of the caseThe facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.According to the official version of the events, on 1 June 2007, the technicians of the LLC “Kaztransgaz”, which is the only company licenced to distribute natural gas in Tbilisi, discovered that the gas-operated water heater was improperly installed in the apartment that the applicant’s son, G.K., and mother were renting. Namely, it was prohibited to install such a heater in the given building since the latter lacked the necessary ventilation system. Upon the discovery of the irregularity, the water heater was disconnected from the …