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Criminal charges connected with public procurement in Georgia move within the orbit of three norms of the Criminal Code: a prior agreement between participants in a procurement, abuse of official authority by an official, and bribe-taking. This page is devoted to criminal defence; the detailed administrative regulation of procurement procedures is established by the Georgian Law on Public Procurement, whose content this page does not reproduce. In practice all three charges are often born in one and the same factual story — a suspicion that the outcome of a tender was predetermined, abuse of authority by the purchaser or an official, and a perceived „consultancy contract“ that grows into a bribe. The task of the defence is to stand separately on every link of that chain, because each charge has its own subject, its own elements and its own evidentiary base.