Ex-mayor of Batumi sentenced to 7 years in prison

Former Mayor of Batumi Giorgi Ermakov was detained last year.Photo: reginfo. 

Agenda.ge, 27 Jan 2020 - 14:24, Tbilisi,Georgia

Former mayor of Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi Giorgi Ermakov [under the Georgian Dream leadership] has been sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of authority and misspending of more than one million USD of state funds while in office.

Another former official of Batumi City Hall, Archil Vanadze, who was detained with Ermakov last year, has been found innocent, while one more detainee Egraslan Lomadze has been sentenced to one year and six months.

In May 2019 the Adjara Prosecutor’s Office detained seven acting and former top officials of Adjara region for misuse of official authority and misspending of state money, including Ermakov.

The detention concerned the construction of residential buildings in Batumi and an electronic tender opened for state-offered project Cheap House.

Read the case details here.