Fired TV Iberia employees claim company used them for business interests
Former employees of Iberia TV have openly criticised the channel’s owners, Zaza Okuashvili, a Russian-British citizen, and his wife, Georgian MP Nato Chkheidze, claiming they were used in a financial spat with the government. They have demanded to be paid unpaid salaries and compensation after mass layoffs at the station. ‘We fought and eventually ended up out in the street, and no one even said thank you’, the former head of the Iberia TV’s news service Vakho Kuzmiashvili complained during