The phone isn’t going to end up in China from people passing them hand to hand; they’re going to be collected somewhere and bundled for shipping in an EM-protected covering of some sort. The record of the route they took right up until they go silent will be available for every phone. Looking at an aggregate map of this data should give the police a pretty good idea of what’s going on.
I suspect the difficulty is that the police need to get a data release from each individual involved and then get Google/Apple and/or the owners to voluntarily share the historical location data with the police… which most people aren’t willing to do out of an abundance of caution.
So essentially, the conclusion is that he acted on bad advice in what he thought were the best interests of Georgians, and was not part of the conspiracy to overthrow the government?
But he DID sign the falsified paper saying he was an elector and that he was selecting the candidate with fewer votes?