The Prosecutor’s Office said it had summoned a former investigator for an interview following his claims that contradicted the official version of events in a highly publicized 2020 death of a 23-year-old Tamar Bachaliashvili.

Sergo Shubitidze is expected to be interviewed by the agency after saying he did not believe the official conclusion that ruled the death of young woman a suicide.

The former investigator told one of the TV channels that he did not trust the official version of the investigation. He said he didn’t “want to carry this burden alone” and added “those who ought to carry it should too”.

The Prosecutor’s Office said it was launching an inquiry into Shubitidze with the formal article on “falsifying evidence”. The body stressed 600 individuals had been interviewed and more than 1,000 investigative activities performed before the case was marked as solved.

It also said Sergo Shubitidze had only interviewed 3 individuals and completed a minor part of the documentation related to the case, adding he “did not conduct any operations that could make any kind of influence on the circumstances determined by the investigation”.