Georgian Parliament official hopes new US administration will address millions spent on destabilising Georgia under Biden Gov’t

Gia Volski, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party and the First Vice Speaker of the Parliament, on Thursday said a recent prank call to a former head of USAID has revealed that billions in US funding were spent on managing “political processes” in other countries.

In his remarks, Volski noted that the pranksters elicited an admission from the former USAID official about the use of vast sums of money for politically-oriented and goal-driven activities.

“The public should know that pranksters called a former head of USAID [Samantha Power] and received an admission that billions of dollars, a figure mentioned by the new US administration, were spent to manage processes that were political in nature, oriented toward a specific task, and this task implied quite serious results”, Volski said.

He also accused non-governmental organisations in Georgia of receiving tens of millions of dollars to carry out destabilising activities, expressing hope that the new US administration would address this issue.

“We see what is happening in Ukraine, as well as in Moldova; this topic was discussed there, but we should not exclude the issue of Georgia. We hope that the new US administration will pay attention to the issue of Georgia, since we know from them that tens of millions of dollars were spent in Georgia during the pre-election period and after the elections in order to organize this process of destabilization”, he concluded.