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WASHINGTON/TBILISI (Reuters) -The United States on Friday sanctioned Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, a former prime minister widely seen as the country's de facto leader, saying he was ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States imposed new sanctions and visa bans on Georgians on Monday, including financial sanctions on two government officials and two members of the country’s pro ...
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Georgia’s former prime minister and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, accusing him and the ruling party he founded of “undermining” the country’s ...
“The United States is committed to promoting accountability for those undermining democracy and human rights in Georgia." Ivanishvili is a shadowy billionaire who made his fortune in Russia and served briefly as Georgia’s prime minister. In 2012, he founded Georgian Dream, Georgia’s longtime ruling party.
The sanctions imply the freezing of all assets owned by Ivanishvili within the United States. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] United Kingdom : The UK, in coordination with the US, imposed sanctions on five senior Georgian officials for violent attacks on journalists and protesters.
The US Department of State imposed sanctions on members of an influential group of judges, a so-called "Clan", including Mikheil Chinchaladze, Levan Murusidze, Valerian Tsertsvadze, and Irakli Shengelia. The United States alleged involvement in significant corruption and referred to it as the main challenge to the Georgian justice system. [25]
On 6 June the United States announced sanctions against Members of the Georgian Dream party, members of Parliament, law enforcement, private citizens, along their immediate family members, "responsible for or complicit in undermining democracy in Georgia, such as undermining the freedom of peaceful assembly and association, violently attacking ...
The US has imposed sanctions on Georgia's former prime minister and billionaire founder of the Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ivanishvili and ...