Saakashvili says convicted Georgian ex-Chief Prosecutor Adeishvili working as advisor in Ukraine
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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.
Saakashvili, who is also convicted and wanted by Georgian law enforcement, told Mtavari Arkhi yesterday that this is the second prosecutor general of Ukraine that Adeishvili has worked with.
He also said that Adeishvili chaired the commission which dismissed ‘many corrupt prosecutors’ in Ukraine, a project which ‘was [supported] by the US.’
Saakashvili said that charges against him and Adeishvili have political grounds, and that is why Ukraine has refused several times to extradite them.
Ruling party MP Irakli Kobakhidze says that 'Saakashvili is a liar and the information may be false.'
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.
Earlier this year Adeishvili was 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.
Adeishvili has already 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.
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.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who has appointed former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili chair of the executive committee of the Ukrainian National Reforms Council, says that Saakashvili is now a Ukrainian citizen and the decision is the internal issue of the country.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.