The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia have added to the charges filed against Soso Gogashvili, to include the intentional disclosure of state secrets and violation of privacy.

The former Deputy Head of the State Security Service of Georgia (SSG) now faces the possibility of added time under Article 320, deliberate disclosure of state secrets, and Article 157(1), illegally obtaining and keeping secrets on private life, of the Criminal Code.

The charges are punishable by 4 to 7 years.

“The additional charges come after their investigation established that Soso Gogashvili had access to information containing state secrets, as well as personal data, which he illegally took out of the SSG building for personal purposes and kept in his residence.

They further claim that Soso Gogashvili then passed on the information taken from the SSG to another person, thus intentionally disclosing state secrets.

The investigation also found that he illegally obtained video material depicting the private lives of a number of people, which he illegally stored on his electronic devices”, - reads the statement of Prosecutor’s Office.