KHAZARADZE AND JAPARIDZE v. GEORGIA and 1 other application

Published on 11 March 2024 FIFTH SECTIONApplications nos. 382/24 and 2241/24Mamuka KHAZARADZE and Badri JAPARIDZE against Georgiaand Avtandil TSERETELI against Georgialodged on 19 December 2023 and 15 January 2024 respectivelycommunicated on 22 February 2024SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASEThe two applications concern under Articles 6, 7 and 18 of the Convention the fairness of the criminal proceedings conducted against the three applicants (see the appendix) who are all Georgian nationals and reside in Tbilisi.On 2 August 2018 the Anti-Money Laundering Department of the General Public Prosecutor’s Office (“the prosecution authority”) launched a criminal investigation into a large-scale financial scheme allegedly orchestrated between April and October 2008 by the first and second applicants, who were at that time the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of TBC Bank (“the bank”) – one …