TBILISI, Georgia () -- Georgians who recently stopped at the central market in the capital Tbilisi to wolf down a traditional cheese pie might find their stomachs turn if they knew they had been baked in the local morgue.


The head of Georgia's Railway Department, Remi Vashakidze, who was arrested last week on charges of massive fraud for selling off large chunks of Georgian rolling stock to Russia, apparently took privatization to the limits.


Vashakidze hired out the dissection room of a public morgue belonging to the department's special hospital to a business baking khachapuri, which were then sold at the nearby central market, transport police investigators said.