Valery Gelashvili
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Valery Gelashvili | |
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ვალერი გელაშვილი | |
| CEO V & G | |
| In office 2006–2012 | |
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| Born | 18 January 1960 |
| Party | Georgian Dream[1] |
Valery Gelashvili (Georgian: ვალერი გელაშვილი; born on 18 January 1960) is a Georgian politician and businessman. He was the Member of Parliament of Georgia 1999–2003, 2003–2005, 2012–2016. Gelashvili belonged to the construction company "EVRA", which was built in Avlabari residence in 2005, but disputes between the company and the state and the construction was transferred to another company.
Valery Gelashvili was born on January 18, 1960, in the village of Khanshuri, located in what was then the Georgian SSR. He graduated from High School No. 3 of the Transcaucasian Railway in 1976 and later studied at the Institute of Physical Culture in Georgia from 1977 to 1981. After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher of physical culture from 1981 to 1991. Following the dissolution of the Georgian SSR in 1989, Gelashvili became the director general of the closed joint venture V & G from 1991 to 1999. He entered politics in 1999 as a majoritarian member of the Parliament of Georgia, representing the Khashuri District until 2003. In 2004, Gelashvili was requested by authorities to hand over his apartment building to the state after the government decided to transform the nearby Road Traffic Police building into the new presidential residence. Gelashvili agreed but requested the construction works of the new presidential residence to be carried out by his construction firm Evra. Gelashvili alleged in the interview that the government had not paid the firm for construction.