The former chief prosecutor, Otar Partskhaladze, who received Russian citizenship, offers investment business projects with immigration benefits to clients through Moscow Business Brokerage (MBB) company, including in Georgia. Immigration benefits include obtaining permanent residency, work visa and citizenship through investment.
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Information about Otar Partskhaladze receiving Russian citizenship was spread by TV Pirveli.
From September 2022, Otar Partskhaladze is recorded in the Russian Federation Unified State Register of Entrepreneurs, and from February 2022, he owns a 50% share in the Chelyabinsk District-based company Moscow Business Brokerage (MBB) LLC.
Apart from Otar Partskhaladze, the brokerage company has two more founders - citizens of the Russian Federation Victoria Bokeria (35% share) and Nikoloz Kartozia (15%). The company’s general director is Viktoria Bokeria. Its office is located in Moscow, on Tverskaya street N1.
Moscow Business Brokerage buys and sells working businesses, investment start-up business projects, commercial real estate, residential real estate, and other diversified investment tangible assets in Russia as well as around the world. According to information published on the company's website, immigration benefits include permanent residency, working visa, and citizenship through investments in the USA, UAE, Georgia, Russian Federation, European Union, Caribbean, and Latin American countries. The company also offers its clients the design, construction, reconstruction, and overhaul of healthcare facilities, and the design and installation of medical and technological complexes.
Roman Bokeria, deputy chairman of the Chamber of Control of Georgia from 2004 to 2007 and Georgian Airways’ general director through 2019-2021, works in Partskhaladze’s company. On the Moscow Business Brokerage’s website, he is listed as CEO and broker, and his daughter, Viktoria Bokeria - is the leading specialist. In December 2022, Roman Bokeria participated in an event organized by Russian Duma and the Georgia-based movement “Solidarity for Peace” in Moscow, participants of which addressed the Russian government with a proposal to restore direct flights between Russia and Georgia and to cancel visa regime for Georgian citizens.
Konstantin Trapaidze, another Russian citizen of Georgian origin, is employed in the company. Trapaidze is a lawyer and Chairman of the Moscow Bar Association.
All countries where Moscow Business Brokerage works in cooperation with legal companies are indicated on the website. In Georgia, the company offers clients the purchase of the residential and commercial real estate, as well as ready-made businesses for the purpose of obtaining Georgian residence permits and citizenship. Their partner company in Tbilisi is Georgian Business Brokerage LLC, registered in 2020. founder of the company and the owner of a 65% share is Roman Bokeria. The rest of the shares are owned by Roland Jobava (10%) and Bezhan Maisuradze (25%), who have dual citizenship of Russia and Georgia.
In 2021, a memorandum of understanding was signed between Georgia Business Brokerage and the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, which states that |the company is interested in acquiring the funding for the implementation of existing and prospective business investment projects in Georgia. In the memorandum signed by Roman Bokeria and the then Minister of Economy Natela Turnava, Ministry expresses its readiness to assist the company in obtaining relevant licenses and permits.
Otar Partskhaladze worked as the chief prosecutor of Georgia from November 21 to December 2013. Before that, he headed MOF investigative service.
In February 2018, the State Audit In January 2017, the Network of Information Centers published a journalistic investigation, according to which the former chief prosecutor Otar Partskhaladze and his wife bought 3 apartments and 4 commercial premises in Tbilisi in 2015-2016, as well as an apartment in the city of Batumi, 2 apartments in the town of Bakuriani, and 4 plots of land located in Tabakhmela, in the village of Tsavkisi. On June 29, 2016, he also bought 100% of the real estate company BSR-CDG Development LLC. The total value of the purchased property was approximately 1,130,000 USD.
The Network published a report, according to which Tbilisi City Hall illegally transferred the property to former chief prosecutor Otar Partskhaladze's company BSR - CDG Development, which may have been the result of a certain corrupt deal.
Before that, on May 13, 2017, in the El Centro nightclub in Tbilisi, Otar Partskhaladze and his companions attacked the Auditor General of Georgia Lasha Tordia. The prosecutor's office indicted Otar Partskhaladze and his accomplice Mikheil Chokheli for the violence against Lasha Tordia, but the court did not find Partskhaladze guilty.
In 2022, the USA granted Lasha Tordia the status of a political refugee.
