The letter says a message from Georgian Dream executive secretary Mamuka Mdinaradze reached his family through a close friend of the secretary. Gharibashvili writes that he has sat “eight months in silence” and that a 20-year relationship with Bidzina Ivanishvili explains the quiet. “I am not fighting anyone.”
No government or prosecution reply had appeared by Friday morning, and no second outlet had picked the letter up. To the previous statement, prime minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on 18 August: “It is not problematic for us; it is problematic for him.”
“I am not fighting anyone.”
The fight, if that is what it is, runs inside the ruling house: an ex-premier who served twice as prime minister for the party Ivanishvili founded, the founder himself, and the party secretary whose message he has now made public.