The Tbilisi City Court has found former mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava guilty of exceeding official powers and sentenced him to one year and two months in prison.
However, other sentences by the Tbilisi Court of Appeals against Ugulava have absorbed the sentence and he has not been sent to prison.
According to the Georgian penalty system, lesser penalties are absorbed by greater penalties.
Initially Ugulava was charged for the embezzlement of 48 million GEL of public funds in 2010-2011. The charge was filed against him in 2013.
However, today the judge of the Tbilisi City Court re-qualified the charge and found Ugulava guilty of exceeding of official powers.
Five other former officials have been charged in the case. However, only the former head of the Tbilisi Development Fund Giorgi Sabanadze was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Sabanadze is wanted by Georgian law enforcers.