CHAKVETADZE v. GEORGIA

Communicated on 17 April 2018 FIFTH SECTIONApplication no. 55949/10Zurab CHAKVETADZEagainst Georgialodged on 9 September 2010STATEMENT OF FACTS1.  The applicant, Mr Zurab Chakvetadze, is a Georgian national, who was born in 1948. He is represented before the Court by Mr I. Kandashvili, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.3.  On 25 December 2008, police stopped the applicant in a street in Tbilisi and conducted his personal search. As a result one Subutex tablet and one bullet were seized from the applicant. The same day, following a search in the applicant’s apartment, police found heroin, one bullet, and cash in the amount of 230,050 United States dollars (“USD”). A court confirmed the validity of both searches ex post factum.4.  The next date the applicant was charged with …