{"id":"ACT-GEO-004","name":"Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Georgia","country":"Georgia","entity_id":604,"description":{"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.","country":"Georgia","website":"","actor_id":"ACT-GEO-004","case_ids":"GEO-003; GEO-005","actor_name":"Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Georgia","actor_type":"Regulatory/Administrative","campaign_ids":"GEO-CAMP-001","actor_category":"Government Official","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.","x_/_twitter_handle":"","youtube_channel_/_url":""},"entity_type":"Regulatory/Administrative","original_id":"ACT-GEO-004"}