State Minister for Law Enforcement Coordination Mamuka Mdinaradze may have illegally accessed criminal case materials, including files classified as “secret,” according to former State Inspector and lawyer Londa Toloraia.
“The Prime Minister’s ‘coordinator’ was familiar with the case files of the special forces, as well as materials under the ‘secret’ classification, which is not just a violation of the law, but a criminal offense,” stated lawyer Londa Toloraia, commenting on Mdinaradze’s statements.
According to Londa Toloraia, the right to review the materials of a criminal case under investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office belongs solely to the Prosecutor’s Office and no one else.
“Anyone with even a basic understanding of law enforcement operations knows that:
The right to review criminal case files under investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office belongs solely to the Prosecutor’s Office and no one else: not the Prime Minister, nor any subordinate official. Even Parliament, to which the Prosecutor’s Office is accountable, does not have this right. Even when the Prosecutor’s Office was part of the Ministry of Justice, the Minister of Justice did not have the right to review case materials. Why? Because the Prosecutor’s Office is ‘independent’—as defined by the Constitution and the law.
The right to review case files under investigation by the State Security Service (SGB) belongs only to the SGB itself and the supervising Prosecutor’s Office. No one else—neither the Prime Minister nor Parliament. Furthermore, no one can review a case marked as ‘secret.’
Today, the Prime Minister’s ‘coordinator’ was aware of both the special forces case files and the materials of a classified case, which is not merely a violation of the law, but a criminal offense.
A separate issue is Mamuka Mdinaradze’s instruction to the SGB to declassify case materials (even though declassification is a function of the Prosecutor’s Office), as well as the SGB’s publication of these materials at the direction of an unauthorized individual.
And yet another issue is that the published materials do not show a single element of a crime,” stated Londa Toloraia.
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