Beka Chulukhadze, a defendant in the case concerning the alleged preparation of “sabotage” during the events of October 4, 2025, has signed a plea agreement. The former security officer, who according to media reports fought in Ukraine, had been charged with large-scale acquisition and possession of firearms, ammunition, and explosives.
According to the television channel TV Pirveli and news agency IPN, the agreement reached by the parties was approved by the Tbilisi City Court. Under the terms of the plea deal, Chulukhadze was sentenced to one year of actual imprisonment and two years of probation. The convict is scheduled to be released from the penitentiary facility in July 2027.
According to defense attorney Gaioz Charkviani, his client did not testify against anyone:
“I declare with full responsibility: my client did not point fingers at anyone; there is nothing of the sort in the criminal case, and Beka Chulukhadze has not testified against anyone.”
He also added that the term “sabotage” does not appear in the case files at all.
“He [Chulukhadze] says: ‘I have had this weapon since the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, and I simply kept it,’” Charkviani explained, noting that his client pleaded guilty to the unlawful acquisition and possession of ammunition and explosives.
On October 5, 2025—the day following municipal elections and a mass protest that culminated in an attempted storming of the presidential residence—the State Security Service of Georgia (SSG) claimed that a weapons cache had been discovered in a forest near Mtskheta. According to the agency, this cache was intended to be used on “October 4, in parallel with the attempt to seize the presidential palace, to carry out acts of sabotage.”
The SSG also stated at the time that the defendant had acquired the aforementioned ammunition and weapons “on the instructions of a Georgian representative of one of the military units operating in Ukraine,” though neither the individual’s identity nor the unit itself was named.
According to the agency, authorities also “managed to neutralize the circle of individuals who were allegedly supposed to transport this ammunition and explosives to central Tbilisi” on October 4. However, no information has surfaced regarding the detention of any other individuals to date.
On July 10, 2026, the SSG announced that Chulukhadze had been detained in the neutral buffer zone between the Georgian and Armenian border checkpoints.