No money: Opposition Georgian TV channel "Mtavari Archi" suspended broadcasting

Georgian opposition TV channel Mtavari Archi suspended broadcasting due to lack of funds, Sputnik Georgia reported on February 15.

The TV company said that further work became impossible due to the fact that one of the co-founders of the channel, Zaza Okuashvili, "artificially created a financial crisis."

"We are working to find the means to restore the broadcast," the channel said in a statement.

It should be borne in mind that Zaza Okuashvili had already been accused of "financial sabotage" back in December. Opposition TV crews claimed that this policy was being implemented by his protege, one of the directors of Goga Kurdadze.

He allegedly blocked all financial transactions and refused to execute "vital contracts for the company." The general director of the channel Georgy Gabunia accused Kuradze and Okuashvili is in an effort to close the TV channel.

Okuashvili himself denies the accusations against him. But the opposition still accuses him of working for the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, in whose interests the Mtavari Archi channel was closed.

As reported by EADaily, earlier in Tbilisi condemned the European Parliament's call to impose sanctions against the President of the National Bank of Georgia, Natia Turnava.