On July 6, 2026, my wife and I went to the police to file a criminal complaint against Next White LLC and Next Hospitality LLC. I had written it in advance, in English and Russian, and organized the evidence to go with it. This is what happened.

We were sent away. At the central police station, we were told that they could not take the complaint, that every residence has a designated station, and that ours was the 7th division. We went there.

My written complaint was refused. I asked that the document I had prepared be accepted as my statement. It was not. I was allowed to use it to structure what I said.

Complaints only in Georgian. I was told that a complaint could be received only in Georgian, a language neither of us speaks. My statement would instead be taken as an interrogation, typed in Georgian by an officer, and I would sign the transcript.

The translators. Because the complaint had to be in Georgian, the police provided two translators to make it official: a Russian translator, who conducted much of the interaction with me and translated my wife's statement, and an English translator, who translated my statement. Whether the Russian translator was a police officer, I was never able to establish. My wife, who is not a professional translator, had come only so that she and I could communicate with the officers, relaying between English and Russian. At times she was not permitted to do even that.

Interrogated apart. My wife was interrogated first. While she was, I was directed to the other side of the room, where I could see her but not hear what she was asked or what was recorded. Then I was interrogated.

I was asked to sign her statement as mine. The reason given was that we are married. I declined.

Multiple drafts. My statement was printed, corrected and reprinted, by my count more than ten times. On each version I found statements I had made that were missing, and translation errors. After many rounds, all but one of my statements were in the text.

I was told that the unsigned contracts would be left out. The Russian translator said, many times, that since I had not signed the two contracts Next had sent me, they would not be included. Whether they were, I do not know: I never obtained a copy of what was registered. That I never signed them is the center of my complaint.

Recharacterized as civil. Officers said several times that the matter was purely civil and that certain elements would not be recorded for that reason. One of them said that it is the police who decide whether a matter is criminal.

A page of my evidence ended up under a chair. The Russian translator handled my organized evidence carelessly. Afterwards, a page was found on the floor beneath a chair.

I was told I "misinterpreted Georgian". The Russian translator insisted, repeatedly, that I was misinterpreting a message about the purpose of the elevator access system, and demanded edits. The message I had highlighted was Next's own English version.

Translation refused. When a freshly printed version was put in front of me, I asked for it to be translated again. The English translator refused: she had only added one sentence on the computer, and thought I should accept the rest as already translated. I could not verify that the rest was unchanged, and I said so. This is when the room erupted.

A hand on my shoulder. In the argument that followed, the Russian translator pressed down on my shoulder to force me into a chair and told me to sign. I stayed calm and did not sign. My wife removed his arm from me.

Released, then questioned further. I was told that I was free to leave. I asked to withdraw my statement and my wife's. Instead the interrogation went on, my signature was obtained on the attestation below, and I was told a second time that I was free to leave.

No copy, no photograph, an unsigned number. I asked for my complaint and evidence to be registered under a case number. I was handed a number — 2387911, dated 06.07.2026, 19:42 — handwritten and unsigned, and was not allowed to check it against the registered document. I was told that no copy of the complaint could be provided and that it could not be photographed. The only thing I signed, checked with a translation app on the English translator's phone, was a statement that the translation shown to me was correct. I did not attest to the content of the complaint, which I had no way to verify.

A promise about the elevator. Officers said they would call the building manager the next day and instruct that elevator access be provided. Nothing was written down, and access was never provided.

Afterwards

Two days later I reported the conduct to the Public Defender of Georgia (application 6902/26), whose Office forwarded it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and later informed me that a departmental inquiry had been opened at the Ministry's General Inspection. On August 21, 2026, I filed a complaint about it with the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia (registered as 01/13-98924). The complaint I had gone to the police to file, which the officers called civil, was registered by the Prosecutor's Office on August 12, 2026, as 01/13-94415.

I also filed a correction with both offices: registered by the Public Defender as 8028/26, and included in the complaint to the Prosecutor's Office. From the Russian translator's conduct, I had initially inferred that he was a police officer. I am no longer sure that he was, so I withdrew that claim and now describe him only as a translator.