Adjara. Transparency International Georgia examined asset declarations of the Government and Members of the Supreme Council of Adjara public officials submitted in 2021-2022 and identified inaccuracies in 39% of declarations.

• 24 out of 62 public officials in the office inaccurately submitted asset declarations. 12 officials did not indicate real estate in the declaration owned by him/her and/or his/her family member.
• 12 officials did not declare their own and/or family members’ business interests – being a shareholder and director of a company.
• 11 public officials did not delegate the right to manage shares in the private companies to other persons.
• 4 public officials did not disclose received remuneration during their tenure.
• 3 public officials received income from activities restricted by the law.
• 2 public officials - members of the Supreme Council, Ilia Verdzadze and Fridon Putkaradze took into consideration inaccuracies indicated in our 2019 research, however, the Chairman of the Government Tornike Rizhvadze ignored violations in his asset declaration identified in our 2020 research.

Hence, Transparency International Georgia calls on Civil Service Bureau to examine asset declarations of the persons named in the study and respond to the identified issues in a timely and comprehensive manner.

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Source: transparency.ge