The Georgian Statutory Framework of Whistleblower Programs
The Georgian statutory framework of a whistleblower program — the mechanism of internal reporting on suspicious transactions — lies in the law on the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing. The law builds the channel from employee to responsible person, protects the fact of reporting from disclosure and defines the guarantee of decision-making independence. At the same time, the multi-tier channel model of the European whistleblowing directive is non-Georgian and cannot carry this page; a full administrative regime of protection from dismissal requires a separate law — that issue is treated on another of our pages. Here the carrier is the Georgian regime of internal reporting.