- country
- Georgia
- description
- country
- Georgia
- actor category
- Government Official
- actor id
- ACT-GEO-004
- actor name
- Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Georgia
- actor type
- Regulatory/Administrative
- campaign ids
- GEO-CAMP-001
- case ids
- GEO-003; GEO-005
- notes
- Institutional capture: originally anti-corruption body repurposed against CSOs. This is the most analytically distinctive Georgian element — inverting an anti-corruption institution into a tool for restricting anti-corruption civil society. Parallel function to RS Tax Inspectorate in BiH and AMLU in Serbia.
- role in campaigns
- Originally independent oversight body — repurposed 2025 as primary institutional mechanism for financial surveillance. Designated as enforcement body for Grants Law April 2025 — 3-month review window for all foreign grant applications. Powers: demand sensitive documents from NGOs; immediate asset freeze without court order (Social Justice Center documents asymmetric procedure). 2024: weaponized to designate NGOs as "persons with declared electoral goal" — barring them from election monitoring. March 2026: absorbed by Georgia's Audit Office. PARALLEL: RS Tax Inspectorate (BiH) and AMLU (Serbia) — existing regulatory body repurposed as civil society surveillance instrument.
- entity id
- 604
- entity type
- Regulatory/Administrative
- id
- ACT-GEO-004
- name
- Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Georgia
- original id
- ACT-GEO-004
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