Gov’t creating “maximum comfort” for ex-Pres. Saakashvili, providing privileges no other prisoners have - PM

The Georgian Government has been creating the “maximum support and comfort” for the imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili, providing him with “all privileges” that no other prisoners have, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili responded to a question on Saturday at the panel discussion, held within scope of the Munich Security Conference.

Saakashvili has been receiving treatment in a private hospital and his family was even offered [by the Government] to bring for him “any doctors from any hospital” for medical care, but instead they have been spreading “lots of fake news” - disinformation on his health condition, using the lobbying firms, which was confirmed last month that Saakashvili’s family had paid $1 million to launch an “aggressive media campaign all around the world”, Garibashvili said.

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PM stressed that Saakashvili had come to Georgia to make another revolution, organise mass killings and bloodshed, adding the former President’s plan “failed” and he “ended-up in jail” to serve his time for the “grave crimes” he had committed.

Saakashvili was arrested in Tbilisi in October 2021, after his clandestine return to Georgia, and is serving a six-year term for two separate abuse of power cases, with three other cases involving his term pending. He has been receiving treatment at Vivamedi clinic in Tbilisi since May 12.

His lawyers and family members have claimed the former president is in “urgent need” of treatment abroad and alleged local professionals had been “unable” to make “accurate diagnosis and ensure relevant treatment” for months