Death of Georgian prime minister: Georgia misinterpreted opinion of FBI experts?

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New evidence of violent death of former Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania has been made public in Georgia, reports Rossiya TV-Channel. Zhvania died in Tbilisi on the night of February 3, 2005, in a flat rented by his friend Raul Yusupov. Under the official assumption that was announced by the investigators as early as in an hour after finding bodies of Zhvania and Yusupov, they died of gassing. Meanwhile, families of Zhvania and Yusupov do not agree with the official version.

A news story in Rossiya TV-Channel Vesti program a man called Zaza Jakelia was shown. He is called a citizen of the house where the tragedy occurred. He said there was no gas in the building on that day. According to the investigation, the tragedy was caused by a gas furnace made in Iran. Examination of the furnace was carried out together with FBI experts. As it is said in the news story, the Georgian translation of the US experts’ opinion differs from the original. The Americans say in their document: “During the examination level of carbon monoxide in the room did not reached the critical one.” The Georgian translation says: “During the examination level of carbon monoxide not only reached the critical one, but exceeded it significantly.”

Moreover, independent expert Maya Nikolaeishvili told the Vesti program that even if the matter concerns the gas furnace, the victims would have started having sick headache and vomiting. “But why they did not even try to open the window?” she asked. Vesti cite the opinion of fingerprinting: “In the apartment the victims were found there no fingerprints belonging to them.” “The thing is, they were brought there while being already dead,” brother of Zurab Zhvania, Georgy believes. The family of Raul Yusupov has the same opinion, the TV-channel reports. Their testaments taken on the day of funerals say: “We examined the body before burying. There was a trace like of a slip-knot on Raul’s neck and small bruises under his nipples like traces of injections.” Meanwhile, there are poisonous substances that are injected and cause reaction same to gassing. As the authors of the news story say, they are given detailed descriptions in a classified reference-book of poisonous substances. Journalist of Georgian TV Komidze was dismissed for making public the results of the investigation, notes the TV-channel. “There is nothing strange that the medical examiners found no poison; they did not even search for it. Head of the expertise had clear directives on the matter and I feel sorry for him sincerely,” Komidze said. Head of the investigation expertise was killed. As the police said, the criminal expert was killed by his former class-mate, who later “shot himself to death.” “By the way, one of the bullets he sent to his heart, another one — to his occiput,” notes the Vesti program cited by grani.ru.