• On October 12, 2024, TV “Pirveli” investigative journalism program “Nodar Meladzis Shabati” aired a story [1] about secret lists of employees and their family members from ministries, municipalities, other public institutions, state and government-affiliated private companies. The described facts confirm how public officials are instructed and forced to collect and forward their personal and family members’ personal data to the ruling party to ensure these individuals vote in favor of the “Georgian Dream” in elections.

The facts described in the story reveal signs of various types of crimes including: unlawful obtaining and use of personal data; influencing voter will and violation of voting secrecy; abuse of official power. The material shown in the story is another piece of evidence that the large-scale scheme of voter bribery and illegal mobilization described in the 2022 study [2] published by “Transparency International - Georgia” and “International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy” is still actively operating. For more details on the material distributed by TV “Pirveli”, see the statement [3] by “Transparency International - Georgia”.