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The circumstances of Givi Targamadze's sudden return to the spotlight in Georgian public life has obscured another mystery: where did he spend the autumn?

Targamadze once announced that he had evidence about who had financed the so-called "Mukhrovani mutiny" in May last year but by the time the trial of the alleged mutineers began he had disappeared from the scene and was gone for some time.

At the time some claimed he was on a "foreign mission" while other reports said he was in Tbilisi all the time.

The next we seem to have heard from him was the tape of a mobile phone call from Targamadze in Ukraine with interior minister Vano Merabishvili (plainly in Tbilisi).

Has Targamadze been in Ukraine all this time? Or was he in Tbilisi? Either way he has been drawing a salary paid for by Georgia's taxpayers without - as far as we can see - being present in parliament.

He surely needs to offer an explanation for this behaviour and for his apparent absence from the job he was elected to do.