Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who has recently been appointed chair of executive committee of Ukraine’s National Reforms Council, says that the former Prosecutor General of Georgia, Zurab Adeishvili, who stands convicted and wanted for multiple crimes in the country, is working as the reforms advisor of the prosecutor general of Ukraine.
Saakashvili, who is also convicted and wanted by Georgian law enforcement, told Mtavari Arkhi yesterday that this is the second prosecutor general of Ukraine that Adeishvili has worked with.
He also said that Adeishvili chaired the commission which dismissed ‘many corrupt prosecutors’ in Ukraine, a project which ‘was [supported] by the US.’
Saakashvili said that charges against him and Adeishvili have political grounds, and that is why Ukraine has refused several times to extradite them.
Ruling party MP Irakli Kobakhidze says that 'Saakashvili is a liar and the information may be false.'
Adeishvili left Georgia on October 1, 2012, on the day of parliamentary elections in Georgia in which the Georgian Dream coalition defeated the United National Movement.
Earlier this year Adeishvili was sentenced to 1.6 years in prison in absentia and was deprived of taking any official post for two years for illegal closure of Iberia TV back in 2004.
Adeishvili has already been sentenced in absentia for the illegal raid on Imedi TV in 2007, illegal confiscation of Akura vinery and abuse of office in the Cartu Bank case.