According to Transparency International – Georgia (TI), the illegitimate Chairman of the Government of Adjara, Sulkhan Tamazashvili (who is sanctioned by the UK), and his family members have unlawfully occupied an unregistered land plot with an area of 2,887 sq. meters adjacent to registered land plots in the village of Kveda Sameba, Kobuleti Municipality, and unlawfully constructed a residential house on it.
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According to the report, On October 12, 2017, Sulkhan Tamazashvili registered as a co-owner of a land plot with an area of 2,500 sq. meters in the village of Kveda Sameba, along with a 248-square-meter building located on it, although he failed to indicate this in his asset declarations of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
“As seen on the Google Earth orthophoto, the old building on this land plot was presumably dismantled after 2020.
In the asset declarations submitted in 2020 and 2021, Tamazashvili also failed to include another land plot with an area of 2,498 sq. meters in the village of Kveda Sameba, which had been registered under his co-ownership on May 7, 2019.
Sulkhan Tamazashvili only included these land plots and the building in the asset declarations of 2022, 2023, and 2024, but he mistakenly indicated his share as 50% instead of 25%. The unregistered land plot with an area of 2,887 square meters, on which Tamazashvili carried out the unlawful construction, is located adjacent to these two parcels,” writes TI.
Sulkhan Tamazashvili held various positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs until April 7, 2025. For the last four years, he served as the Director of the Tbilisi Police Department. In December 2024, the UK government sanctioned Tamazashvili due to the violent dispersal of pro-European protests. Following this, he was awarded the Order of Honor by Georgian Dream President Mikheil Kavelashvili for his "special contribution to strengthening rule of law and public order." Sulkhan Tamazashvili was later appointed as the Chairman of the Government of the Adjara Autonomous Republic.
