A member of Zurab Zhvania’s political bloc was found dead of an apparent suicide. Meanwhile, an ethnic Georgian businessman and politician involved in charity activities in Georgia was shot dead in Moscow.
Georgian media reported that Mamuka Jincharadze, 38, had a periodic relations with the Georgian authorities and was involved in charity activities in Georgia, particularly he contributed to construction of a Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi and purchase of a land for the Georgian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem in 2003.
But for the first time Jincharadze’s name became in the focus of public attention last March, when the Georgian Security Ministry arrested Jincharadze for an alleged link to a damage of a helicopter, which was owned by the Security Ministry. Jincharadze claimed that he rented the helicopters. He was released after agreed to compensate damage.
Now, there’s nothing to connect the Gori car bombing, Zhvania’s death, Kelashvili’s suicide, and Jincharadze’s murder, but that seems like way too many weird things to happen in one week.
Officials are interrogating dozens of people in connection with Zhvania’s death. They are trying to track down an unknown person he called at 1:20 a.m., three hours before his body was found.
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