"Badri Patarkatsishvili went on to say that he would never yield to pressure from the authorities.Shortly after this statement influential government MP Giga Bokeria convened a news conference and accused Patarkatsishvili of blackmailing the authorities "It appears that he [Patarkatsishvili] cannot forget his past – Russia during [ex-President Boris] Yeltsin's presidency, when he and his friends controlled everything – the authorities, business and seized huge amounts of property.