KHUTSISHVILI AND LLC KARTU MSHENEBELI v. GEORGIA and 1 other application

Communicated on 18 October 2017 FIFTH SECTIONApplications nos. 64623/12 and 64819/12Nugzar KHUTSISHVILI and LLC KARTU MSHENEBELI against Georgiaand GEORGIAN DREAM against Georgialodged on 26 September 2012 and 28 September 2012 respectivelySTATEMENT OF FACTSThe applicants are a Georgian national who resides currently in Georgia, a company registered in Georgia and another organisation based in that State. They are represented before the Court by Ms A. Kakhniauri, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi. The details of their applications are set out in the Appendix.A.  The circumstances of the casesThe facts of the cases, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.On 9 February 2012 S. Khutsishvili (“the first applicant”), who at that time was working as a deputy director of LLC Kartu Mshenebeli (“the applicant company”) and who at the same time was employed by several other comp …