As a proof for their allegations, Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office released, on November 16, 2007, several taped phone conversations between Patarkatsishvili and Giorgi Targamadze, chief of Imedi TV’s political programs, and also between a producer and a journalist of Imedi TV.
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The hoax was condemned by many public figures both in Georgia and abroad, including Georgian patriarch Ilia.
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The station manager Giorgi Arveladze is the country's former economics minister and a longtime friend of President Mikhail Saakashvili.
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The stations were formerly owned in part by the late Georgian media tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili, and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
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