There are still unanswered questions in society regarding the suicides of numerous people that took place during the Kobakhidze-Mdinaradze regime - Irakli Gharibashvili

Mamuka Mdinaradze made such grave and gross mistakes in this [my] case that this led not only to his removal from office, but also to his retirement from politics, - former Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili writes about this in another letter sent from prison.

“I think the public has already been convinced that the letter I published is genuine and the facts stated in it are true. Mamuka Mdinaradze made such grave and gross mistakes in this case that this led not only to his removal from office, but also to his departure from politics. However, I would like to make my position known to the public: removing Mdinaradze from politics cannot erase the grave and irreparable damage caused to the country, people and the Georgian Dream with his and Irakli Kobakhidze’s complicity.

I will once again explain to the public what was meant in the first paragraph of the letter sent to me, which mentions journalists Dito Chubinidze, Irma Inashvili and the perceptions and doubts that have arisen due to their activity. On this issue, Ms. Irma Inashvili herself explained that I have had no contact and do not have any contact with their political or journalistic activities. Perhaps the journalist Dito Chubinidze’s articles I would not have said anything about it at all if I had not learned about one horrifying fact a few days ago, completely by chance. That is why I decided to share with the public additional information that is directly related to the letter sent to me by the government and the fact that occurred in February of this year.

On February 12, at the behest of Kobakhidze and Mdinaradze, I was sent an article from the newspaper “Asaval-Dasavali” dated February 2, 2026. In the article, journalist Dito Chubinidze interviews former human rights defender Lazare Jorbenadze. The article was mainly devoted to criticism of Kobakhidze and the serious accusations made against him.

I was given a pretentious message, in which a suspicion based on an absolutely false perception was expressed - was I not behind the aforementioned article? I deliberately do not write other details, although the main accusation and claim was that they saw my trace behind such critical articles.

My reaction, of course, was extremely negative and I decided that they would not come to me with similar questions and complaints a second time, that such commissioned articles were not my handwriting and were characteristic of them. Later, these critical accusations were often repeated on the air of the TV company “Obiektivi”. Now the picture is clear to me and the answer to all questions has been given, as to why they wrote as the first point of the letter that “supporters like Dito Chubinidze and Irma Inashvili” had raised serious doubts and greatly damaged the interests of the Kobakhidze-Mdinaradze team.

This whole story probably wouldn’t have been worth telling publicly if I hadn’t learned by chance that the respondent to the aforementioned article by Dito Chubinidze committed suicide some time after the article was published…

I also learned that the newspaper “Asaval-Dasavali” itself openly asked questions regarding the suicide of the deceased human rights defender, Lazare Jorbenadze, and questioned his version of suicide.

The following question must be answered: What was the real reason for the death of human rights defender Lazare Jorbenadze?

I am asking this question publicly because there are still unanswered questions in society regarding the suicides of numerous people that took place during the Kobakhidze-Mdinaradze administration…”, writes Irakli Gharibashvili.