Representatives of Georgia, on the instructions of Bidzina Ivanishvili, resorted to banditry methods and kidnapped me to Georgia, - Giorgi Bachiashvili, the former head of the Co-Investment Fund, stated at the trial.

According to Bachiashvili, he was brought to Georgia by plane.

"I consider myself absolutely innocent of all the criminal cases that are being conducted against me. Today it was proven that I am Ivanishvili's personal prisoner in Georgia.

I want to tell you about another, very big international crime, an international crime that was committed directly on vanishvili's orders.

On Saturday, May 24, I was kidnapped from abroad, blindfolded, carried blindfolded for 2 days, without informing my lawyer, prosecutor, judge or family, then directly, kidnapped, put me on an Airzena plane, and in violation of all laws, I was abducted to Georgia. The history of Georgia remembers many cases... The extortion special operation has acquired international proportions...

Representatives of Georgia, on the instructions of Bidzina Ivanishvili, resorted to banditry methods and kidnapped me to Georgia," Bachiashvili said.