12/13/2024
Presenter:
Justice became a privilege of individuals, and injustice became a legal regularity, a young man was mercilessly beaten in broad daylight in front of surveillance cameras, and the perpetrators left the area in a pick-up truck with tinted windows and hid. since then no one has seen them, not only has no one investigated this very serious crime, no one has found the perpetrators, moreover, the beaten citizen does not even have the status of a victim, everything started with state tenders where Davit Kalmakhelidze entered as a subcontractor, first the private company cheated and dumped him, and the state, Despite winning court cases, everything was taken away from this entrepreneur and he went bankrupt Only because the he did not have “connections” up there. in order to expose the injustice, this person became active in the social network, created a special group and began to expose the system, and as a result, he was beaten to death and advised to remain silent forever.
David Kalmakhelidze:
Someone attacked me on Lis Lake, there was two men they started to beat me, then drove away in a black pick-up truck.
Reporter:
Davit Kalmakhelidze, who was bleeding from the head, made this recording on March 24 of this year, at 18 hours and 56 minutes, exactly 1 minute after the attack.
David Kalmakhelidze:
They fell from behind, threw me to the ground, there was snow, they mostly hit me on the head and sides, and as soon as I could I covered myself with my hands and buried my face in the snow, I still can't bend these four fingers, after so long, because my fingers and head took all the blows that hit me.
Reporter:
The attack took place in front of one of the restaurants, 30 meters from the security booth near Lisi Lake. Davit Kalmakhelidze does not remember how long his ex*****on lasted, but he remembers everything that happened after the villains left.
David Kalmakhelidze:
I got up and saw how two guys, taller than me, ran up the stairs and with my own eyes I saw a black pick-up truck, fogged up from all sides, like in the movies, there was sound of brakes suddenly, the sound of the closing doors and they left, they passed the police camera from there, they passed by the British Academy polices three cameras are standing there too.
Reporter:
The area where the attack took place does not complain about the lack of cameras either, not only in front of the restaurant, but there are many surveillance cameras installed on any pole in this section of Lisi lake, their recordings were shown to Davit Kalmakhelidze by the security guards on the same day.
David Kalmakhelidze:
In the security booth I saw with my own eyes two young tall guys running towards me, the legs of the beating fact were visible, what I could see, when they finished it, they ran back and even the faces of the runners behind were visible.
Reporter:
It's been a month and a half since the attack on Kalmakhelidze, and the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs has neither caught the attackers nor the tinted pickup truck in which they disappeared, but we journalists remember very well how quickly the police work when, like our colleague: Lexo Lashkarava, someone wants to discredit. We remember exactly how in 1 day they removed all the outdoor surveillance cameras from Nutsubidze Plateau to Fonichala and how they manipulated public sentiments.
Lawyer:
I remember other cases that were investigated very fast and if they don't want to, they don't investigate, this is the most tragic. What is to be investigated here, the cadres are one person who was beaten and assaulted by several people, we are telling him to investigate this case, why don't you investigate this case, at least declare him a victim so that he can look into the case and investigate himself, we ask for that and police refuses to do that, imagine.
Reporter:
The prosecutor's office says that the investigation into the attack on Davit Kalmakhelidze is going on intensively, and he is also known as a victim, but the fact is that David has not been given the opportunity to access the materials until now, and there is no sign of the intensity of the investigation anywhere.
Lawyer:
the investigation is silent, even though on the contrary, it should protect the citizen of Georgia, the investigation ignores such a person whose interests are clearly violated, and we are talking about a simple case, a simple criminal case, so to speak, when the state is directly obliged to protect this person and this person It does not protect, but gives the impression that the perpetrators of this person are walking freely. They won't have any problems, and this person now has to walk with a candle, so to speak, to find justice.
Reporter:
David Kalmakhelidze has been missing justice in this country for a long time, the fact of the attack on him is an attempt to extinguish this candle, someone wants him to shut up, someone wants him to stop protesting, someone wants him to be afraid, even his own shadow.
Lawyer:
By the way, on the one hand, the goal has been achieved, this person has been locked up, until now he only has a complex of movement, that is, he is actually scared, seeing that this country is unfair, what is it like now, some people are meeting this person, they are beating him, and the state is silent about it.
David Kalmakhelidze:
After the beating, I bought a welding machine, as soon as I got up a little, in the midst of headaches, I welded the bars with my own hands and hung the stencil, I am like a red egg or a white crow in this fashionable area and I am waiting for when I will be killed or when I will be evicted, and this is a one-man action and I'm like this, I can't leave the yard.
Reporter:
Before locking himself in his own yard, Davit Kalmakhelidze did not leave any high-ranking state official to whom he did not address in writing, he did not leave any state structure in front of which he did not hold a one-person or multi-person rally. 3 In one word, he did not lack efforts to reach the state that he and more than 300 workers standing behind him were oppressed worker, but he could not find justice anywhere.
David Kalmakhelidze:
My protest became more intense when I was registered in the public register, a legal entity, the "Ownerless" movement, because, no matter who you ask today, any person, what is happening in this country, everyone will answer that the country is ownerless or the people are ownerless.
Reporter:
Before getting involved in the protest, David Kalmakhelidze was an ordinary entrepreneur, loyal to the government, who was a subcontractor of a subcontractor involved in state infrastructure projects. Thanks to the small but flexible company, he performed his assigned duty clearly and received the corresponding salary.
David Kalmakhelidze:
I moved from subcontractors of subcontractors to being a subcontractor, I became a direct subcontractor of the state contractor Accord, on the construction of the Ricoti bypass road, and I used all the resources I could, whatever I had, whatever I didn't have, I put the family's property in the bank, I took out the equipment, 5 million GEL worth and this equipment was absolutely new and ideal for completing the project, they signed me to work because I was working with “Accord“ for 11 years.
Reporter:
Open joint-stock company "Accord" is a fairly powerful construction industrial and investment corporation from Azerbaijan, which was founded in 2005, and has been operating in the post-chain space, including in Georgia, for more than 10 years.
David Kalmakhelidze:
I was not even afraid of the state contractor, it is logical that such a large company is a representative of a large state, and I did not even think that someone would come to this point or fall.
Reporter:
Accord has won a number of million-dollar tenders in Georgia and some of the projects have been completed, however, in December 2020, its reputation came under a big question mark.
David Kalmakhelidze:
The very first commitment, it's called IPIS, the interim certification that I submitted to “Accord”, “Accord” submitted it to the state, the state paid him money, but they didn't pay me the money state paid, and I got into big trouble.
Reporter:
David Kalmakhelidze was supposed to receive about 350,000 GEL from "Accord", after several protest actions were held to pay this debt, in 2021 year Davit Kalmakhelidze received a promise from Vugar Suleimanov, the general director of “Akkord”.
Vugar Suleimanov (General Director of “AKKORD AZERBAIJAN”) (recording):
I sincerely want to tell you that I want to cooperate with you specifically within the framework of this project, if we can cooperate closely, we can shake hands at this moment and make a decision;
David Kalmakhelidze (on the record):
I'm always ready, the only problem is to solve the payment issue.
Vugar Suleimanov (General Director of “AKKORD AZERBAIJAN”) (recording):
Our David, what do you say?
David Kobakhidze Vugar Suleimanov (General Director of “AKKORD GEORGIA”) (on the record):
In principle, it is acceptable if there is a suitable proposal
Vugar Suleimanov (General Director of “AKKORD AZERBAIJAN”) (recording):
Well, David, 340,000 GEL is approximately how many dollars
David Kalmakhelidze (on the record): $100,000
Vugar Suleimanov (General Director of “AKKORD AZERBAIJAN”) (recording):
Well, our accounts are still blocked there, let's make an agreement, I want to pay off his debt 100 percent, close the old book and open a new one.
David Kalmakhelidze:
However, the director of such a large company threw me off in the full sense of the word
Reporter:
After that, David Kalmakhelidze sued Accord in court and won the case.
David Kalmakhelidze:
I had in my hand a legally valid court decision, and a legally valid discharge certificate issued by the court on behalf of Georgia.
Reporter:
Equipped with these documents, the entrepreneur reported to the National Bureau of Enforcement.
David Kalmakhelidze:
I had to pay up to 40,000 GEL, I had to pay 2% of the receivable amount to start the enforcement process, and I had to be in line 31, there are 30 creditors in the register of debtors of Accord, this is broad information known to everyone, among them the state is in the first place.
Reporter:
Since the legally binding decision could not be enforced, and the chance of recovering the debt was zero, Kalamkhelidze requested the state agencies to delay pay the VAT, which amounted to only 57,000 GEL, until the time when “Accord” paid off the debt, although the state machinery did not listen to his request and they began to oppress an entrepreneur.
David Kalmakhelidze (on the record):
will appeal to the Minister of Finance, even though I don't even know who you are, I don't know your name, I don't know your last name, the importance of who you are and how you are is coming from there. You are selling my last property by the hands of judge slave Zarqua, because of the Azerbaijanian “Akkord”, the embassy of the Azerbaijan is two steps away from here, go and ask why I could not pay VAT to you, and why you sold me this property.
Reporter:
The protests at the Embassy of Azerbaijan and various state agencies were followed by numerous confrontations with the police.
David Kalmakhelidze (on the record):
They sold my house at an auction, they sold my equipment, they sold me everything I had, and this government is selling this sprinter at an auction. That's why I swear. I was there, I won the trial, but it was not implemented, it will never be implemented
Reporter:
Then, after trying provocations, the power structure resorted to the saw and arrested the embittered entrepreneur 2 times in 5 days in an administrative manner. Apparently, Kalmakhelidze's enemies were not satisfied with this either and they executed him in the sun during the day.
David Kalmakhelidze:
I don't even have money for treatment, I don't even have the means to go somewhere out of the country, if I go, everything has been confiscated, my family's property has been confiscated, absolutely everything, nothing has been to me anymore.
Reporter:
After all this, is it any wonder that Davit Kalmakhelidze builds a cage in the yard of his fashionable house, in which he will lock himself when the bailiff promises to evict him from the house, and before that, the man who is left so hopeless and without an owner stands and runs away from the "city with full of life"
