Newly elected member of the Constitutional Court of Georgia, Merab Turava, answered to the questions regarding the issue of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia, Giorgi Papuashvili’s living in the house of the property confiscated Roland Bladadze on the press-conference of March 23.2015.  

„I know the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia for some years, however  there is nothing much that I know regarding the case. I have heard of this case by means of media and  from newspapers, but I do not really possess precise and checked information. It  is very difficult to answer the question, basics of which I don’t know. But yet, I would say that in any case, property, transferred to Giorgi Papuashvili, would  by all means be the  property of the State and accordingly there could not happen so, that someone’s (meaning concrete person’s )  property was  transferred to him (to Papuasvili), (meaning It would be possible to transfer property to Papuashvili only after it had been transferred to the  property of State  first), but in order to decide  the issue of the legality and fairness of the property confiscation from Bladadze, and it’s  transfer  to the State property ,  one should have thorough and deep knowledge of the case, and being the judge of the Constitutional Court of Georgia, I am not competent and authorized to consider the legality  or illegality of the actions not having  sufficient awareness of the case evidences , as well as not having idea about the legal  nature of the property, who was the legal owner of the property, was the confiscation legal or illegal ,  to whom was it transferred and why… moreover, it is legally prohibited for me ,as a judge to appraise legality or illegality of the issue; it has relevant procedures and if legal owner of the property considers that the state, not the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, was unfair towards him and was acting against constitution , the property owner (Bladadze) has right to appeal  and has probably already  appealed to the Court , he has the opportunity to appeal to the Strasbourg Court as well, regarding the violation of property rights. Answering the question of legality of the transfer of concrete property to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Papuashvili, and if it was fair to confiscate the property from its initial owner (Bladadze), is much easier for politicians, then for me- the judge of Constitutional Court of Georgia. My ,the judge’s answer to these questions  could  be provided only if I had concrete and detail awareness of the case. However I have heard of this case only from press as the majority of the population reading the press and I had never dealt with it as the lawyer, therefore, accusation of someone, and claim that action was legal or illegal by me, as the judge of the Constitutional Court of Georgia, is inadmissible, “- stated Merab Turava.