Probe into ex-PM Zhvania's death restarted in Georgia
TBILISI. Nov 27 (Interfax) - The Georgian Main Prosecutor's Office has re-started the criminal investigation into the death of Georgia's former prime minister Zurab Zhvania in February 2005, Zhvania's brother Giorgy announced on Tuesday after being questioned at the Prosecutor's Office for several hours.
"The criminal inquiry into Zurab's death has been restarted. I cannot speak about details, but I have said more than once and I confirm now that President Saakashvili, and interior and justice ministers Merabishvili and Adeishvili, had been doing all they could to conceal the evidence," he said.
According to the official statement, Zhvania died in an apartment with his friend Raul Yusupov in a carbon monoxide poisoning accident. American forensic experts who participated in the investigation confirmed that theory.
Meanwhile, Zhvania's relatives said he had been killed and that his accidental death had been staged.
