[3] Ebralidze then forged close relations with the Russian authorities and made his fortune as a trader and property developer in the early 1990s.

As of 2009, he is the director general and co-owner of the Taleon group, owning a fashionable club and luxury hotel housed in historical mansions in St. Petersburg, as well as the owner of several elite shops and markets.

[3][4][5] In May 2009, Ebralidze attended the "assembly of peoples of Georgia" in Sochi, Russia, organized by the critics of Georgian government.

[6] Givi Targamadze, senior member of the Parliament of Georgia for the ruling United National Movement party accused Ebralidze of being behind the 2009 Georgian attempted mutiny with the aim of “at least to trigger unrest in Georgia” or “at maximum to pave the way for entry of the Russian occupation forces in Tbilisi.”[2] Ebralidze dispatched his attorney lawyer in Tbilisi to formally request the Georgian chief prosecutor’s office to probe into the allegations.

[6] Ebralidze has set the future presidential elections of 2013, when President Mikheil Saakashvili’s second and final term in office expires, as his target.