Georgian PM Zhvania may be exhumed

The body of former Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania may be exhumed, his brother Georgy said, Trend reports.Georgy Zhvania stated that investigators believed that he had been killed, not suffocated by gas. Rashur Yusupov, father of Raul Yusupov, said that investigators were checking the evidence a second time. Many witnesses were questioned again.Zurab Zhvania, one of the leaders of the Rose Revolution, was found dead together with Raul Yusupov, Vice Governor of the Kvemo-Kartli Region, in Yusupov’s apartment in February 2005. According to the official version, they suffocated from a gas leak. Many in Georgia believe that their deaths were political assassinations.

The body of former Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania may be exhumed, his brother Georgy said, Trend reports.

Georgy Zhvania stated that investigators believed that he had been killed, not suffocated by gas. Rashur Yusupov, father of Raul Yusupov, said that investigators were checking the evidence a second time. Many witnesses were questioned again.

Zurab Zhvania, one of the leaders of the Rose Revolution, was found dead together with Raul Yusupov, Vice Governor of the Kvemo-Kartli Region, in Yusupov’s apartment in February 2005. According to the official version, they suffocated from a gas leak. Many in Georgia believe that their deaths were political assassinations.