On September 17, a fake Facebook account named “Marekhi Liparishvili” shared a photo of the former head of Georgia’s State Security Service, Grigol Liluashvili, along with a quote, “Bidzina Ivanishvili personally forced us to finance the United National Movement.” The same quote had also been posted by a Facebook user on July 29.
The quote attributed to Grigol Liluashvili regarding the funding of the United National Movement is fake. No such statement by the former head of the State Security Service can be found in open sources.
The quote spread in Liluashvili’s name is fabricated. No Georgian-language media outlet (1;2;3) has ever published such a phrase, nor has it appeared in any other sources.
In the July post, it is visible that the quote was taken from a TikTok page called “georgiandream2.” As of September 22, a TikTok page with that name can no longer be found. It is noteworthy that Myth Detector has previously fact-checked a fabricated quote falsely attributed to former Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili, spread in a similar style. In that case, the fake quote originated from the TikTok account “georgiandream.4141” and was later reposted to Facebook by the fake account Marekhi Liparishvili. Georgiandream.4141 has published many similar fabricated quotes. The TikTok pages may be connected to one another.
About the Source
One of the distributors of the fabricated quote in Liluashvili’s name is the fake Facebook account Marekhi Liparishvili. The profile was initially registered on Facebook under the name Gvantsa Gogoladze.
The profile photo does not belong to the account owner. It was taken in 2016 by Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc during a visit to Azerbaijan for her project “The Atlas of Beauty.” According to Noroc’s post, the woman in the photo is named Fidan.
Myth Detector also fact-checked a fake quote spread by the Marekhi Liparishvili account in February 2025, when the account was sharing a fabricated quote attributed to Nino Tsilosani.
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