Director General of "Maestro" Georgian TV Company resigns

Kakha Bekauri has left the post of Director General of the "Maestro" TV Company. According to his version, he took this decision to allow the founders to find some easier solution in their critical financial situation.

Mr Bekauri believes that the financial problems of the TV Channel are associated with the departure of Erosi Kitsmarishvili, one of the founders of the Channel, now - one of the leaders of the "Georgian Party", to politics. Kakha Bekauri has expressed hope that his decision to retire will bring Kitsmarishvili "back to senses"; and he pay, before the New Year, at least a part of salary debts to employees of the TV Company, the "Echo of the Caucasus" reports.

According to Bekauri, now Kitsmarishvili is interested that the "Maestro" reflects his political viewpoints. "After feeling resistance, Kitsmarishvili tried to cut off the 'Maestro' funding sources in order to force the Director General to retire, and then - achieve his plans," said Bekauri.

Mr Kitsmarishvili himself has stated that he exerted no pressure on the company's employees. "No journalist of the 'Maestro' will say that I myself or the company that I founded are exerting any pressure. When Bekauri says that I pressured on him, he's lying! Bekauri has no grounds for any accusations," the "Georgia Online" quotes Mr Kitsmarishvili as saying.

In Georgia, the TV Company "Maestro" is considered among the "opposition's TV trumpets."