Georgia waits for Ukraine’s decision on ex-Justice Minister Adeishvili’s extradition
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Georgia has sent all relevant documents regarding ex-Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili, who is wanted by Georgia’s law-enforcement bodies and INPERPOL’s red notice, to Ukraine and now the latter needs to decide whether or not to transfer him to Georgia.
Georgia’s Deputy Interior Minister Archil Talakvadze talked about Adeishvili’s staying in Ukraine with local journalists today.
He said Georgia respected Ukraine as a sovereign state and was now waiting for Ukraine to make an independent decision.
"We cannot put any pressure on Ukraine regarding this issue,” he said, adding Georgia would respect Ukraine’s decision whatever it would be.
Adeishvili who was charged in absentia in Georgia for the abuse of power with the use of violence, inhumane treatment, provoking a crime and fabricating evidence, was said to be in Ukraine and participate in the consultations about the ways of the fight against corruption. This information was confirmed by the Ukrainian Ambassador to Georgia.
Deputy Chief Prosecutor Irakli Shotadze has advised the Ukraine’s Government to transfer former Minister of Justice Zurab Adeishvili to Georgia, as the latter is wanted by Georgia’s law-enforcement bodies and INPERPOL’s red notice.Shotadze made the statement in response of recent speculations that Adeishvili might be appointed as a head of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Agency on January 14.
Four Georgians have been presented as high officials in the Ukrainian government, stated Ukrainian news agency Liga.net.
Georgia’s former Deputy Interior Minister Ekaterine Zghuladze is expected to take the same post in Ukraine’s new government after she was granted Ukrainian citizenship yesterday.
Georgia’s former Minister of Health has surrendered his citizenship and been approved as one of Ukraine’s cabinet ministers.
Ukrainian authorities are refusing to cooperate with Georgia and extradite two former Georgian high officials who are currently wanted in their home country.
Georgia’s former Interior Minister Ivane (Vano) Merabishvili and former Chief Prosecutor Zurab Adeishvili are facing new criminal charges that stem back to 2004 and relate to unlawful seizure of property.
The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia has charged two former high-ranking officials for crimes committed 11 years ago regarding the illegal closure of the Iberia TV channel and seizure of the media outlet’s broadcasting license.
Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation about a crime committed under the former government involving illegal detention and kidnapping of a former opposition leader, Koba Davitashvili.
Former Prosecutor General of Georgia Zurab Adeishvili has been 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, under the United National Movement government.
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.
Georgia’s former Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili, who stands convicted and wanted for several crimes in Georgia, requested the termination of his Georgian citizenship back in March 2021 because he received Ukrainian citizenship, the Georgian Justice Ministry has confirmed.
Former Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili and ex-head of the Penitentiary Department Davit Chakua have been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for the inhumane treatment of prisoners, abuse of power and falsifying evidence in the high-profile case of the ‘prison abuse scandal’ which broke out in September of 2012.