Political Parties’ Financial Monitoring Service, as a result of election processes monitoring in the period of the 2013 Presidential elections of Georgia, completed the proceedings on 6 administrative cases, upon which protocols of administrative violations were drawn up and sent to the Tbilisi City Court for further response.
The above-mentioned protocols were drawn up on the following cases:
1. Non-submission of three-week and election period financial declarations by presidential candidate, Mr. Kartlos Gharibashvili, resulting in fine in the amount of 1 000 GEL;
2. Non-submission of three-week and election period declarations by presidential candidate, Mr. Mamuka Melikishvili, resulting in fine in the amount of 1 000 GEL;
3. Non-submission of three-week and election period declarations by presidential candidate, Ms. Nestan Kirtadze, resulting in fine in the amount of 1 000 GEL
4. Unauthorized Cash withdrawal operation from the election campaign fund account of the presidential candidate Ms. Nestan Kirtadze, resulting in fine in the amount of 1 000 GEL;
5. Non-submission of the information regarding the pre-election advertising campaign by the Political Union of Citizens “ United National Movement,” resulting in fine in the amount of 2 000 GEL
6. Non-disclosure of donations by the Political Union of Citizens “Democratic Movement - United Georgia” (in the amount of 32 318 GEL), resulting in double amount fine of the received donation.
Monitoring Service continuously monitors the previous and current period processes, to ensure transparency and legality of political financing.
