Wanted ex-Prosecutor General Adeishvili requests termination of Georgian citizenship
Georgia’s former Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili has been on the run since October 2012.
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Georgia’s former Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili, who stands convicted and wanted for several crimes in Georgia, requested termination of his Georgian citizenship back in March 2021 because he had received Ukrainian citizenship, the Georgian Justice Ministry has confirmed.
The ministry studied the request and sent the conclusion to the president of Georgia, while the president accepted the cancellation of Adeishvili's citizenship yesterday.
Back in 2020 Adeishvili was sentenced to 1.6 years in prison in absentia for the illegal closure of Iberia TV back in 2004.
He has also 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.
In January 2021 Adeishvili was sentenced to six years in prison in absentia for kidnapping and abuse of official authority in the case of former opposition leader Koba Davitashvili.
Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who currently chairs the Executive Committee of Ukraine’s National Reforms Council, said in May 2020 that Adeishvili is working as the reforms advisor of the prosecutor general of Ukraine.
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.
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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.
Former Prosecutor General of Georgia Zurab Adeishvili has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison in absentia, while MP of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party Nika Melia has been banned from taking public office for two years and three months in the high profile case of Cartu Bank, involving the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party Bidzina Ivanishvili.
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A group of unidentified individuals attacked Georgia's wanted former Prosecutor General and justice minister Zurab Adeishvili in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Ukrainian online media outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported on Monday.
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The head of the ruling Georgian Dream party and MPs from the faction on Tuesday criticised Ukrainian authorities for promoting Zurab Adeishvili, the wanted former prosecutor general and justice minister of Georgia, as a senior advisor to the Ukrainian prosecutor general, condemning his recent presence at the Council of Europe along with his chief to discuss Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday said the Georgian government had a “one-sided friendship” with the Ukrainian authorities, with the situation “ongoing for years” now.