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Georgia's authorities have promised immunity to former president Eduard Shevardnadze, the presidential press service said on Friday. "Eduard Shevardnadze will not follow in the footsteps of his son-in-law, Georgy Dzhokhtaberidze," the release says. Dzhokhtaberidze, who owns the Georgian mobile telephone company Magtikom, was arrested on a plane due to fly from Tbilisi to Paris on Friday morning. "The information released by some news media about Eduard Shevardnadze's upcoming arrest is untrue," the press service said. "The Georgian government will make an address to parliament in the nearest future to finalize the immunity of ex-president Eduard Shevardnadze," it said.
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