The general secretary of the Georgian Dream and mayor of Tbilisi, former footballer Kakha Kaladze, said he no longer trusts European banks after they “robbed” the founder of the Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili. Kaladze closed his foreign accounts.
He also said that he does not know if the sanctions of the United States Department of State, which were imposed against more than 60 members of the Georgian government and parliament, as well as members of their families, have been applied against him for “regressing democracy in Georgia.”
According to a statement published earlier this year, Kaladze only has accounts in Georgian banks. Last year’s statement indicated an account at the Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo, into which funds worth $4.2 million were deposited. A year earlier, Kaladze had an account in the Swiss bank Julius Baer, where he kept 3.7 million euros and 765 thousand dollars.
