Germany to extradite ex-police official Chakua to Georgia
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Germany will extradite ex-head of the penitentiary department under the United National Movement government, Davit Chakua to Georgia, the Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed.
He has been wanted by Interpol since 2013.
Chakua has been charged and convicted for several, high-profile cases, including provoking the Tbilisi prison riot back in 2006 which claimed the lives of seven inmates.
He has been convicted for torturing prisoners, abuse of office, fabricating official document and other crimes.
Chakua faces charges for kidnapping and beating businessman Zviad Abesadze.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Georgia must pay 80,000 euros to the families of two inmates who were killed during a riot in Georgian prisons back in 2006, under the United National Movement government.
A former employee of the Georgian Interior Ministry, who is charged with the illegal deprivation of liberty and torture, has been detained in Ukraine, the Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office reported earlier today.
The Tbilisi City Court has sent Georgia’s former Minister of Defence under the United National Movement leadership, Bacho Akhalaia, to prison for nine years for a high-profile torture case involving Colonel Sergo Tetradze in 2011.
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.