What criminal charges are filed against recently arrested ex-president Saakashvili?
Saakashvili served as the country’s third president from 2004 to 2013 and left Georgia back in 2013 after the Georgian Dream (GD) came to power in 2012. Photo: video grab.
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Overall six criminal charges are filed against recently arrested Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili who has been convicted to six years of imprisonment in two cases while four other criminal cases are still being heard in Tbilisi City Court.
Saakashvili has been found guilty in the following two cases in absentia:
- The case of physical attack on opposition MP Valeri Gelashvili who was severely injured and assaulted by armed and masked men in Tbilisi in 2005.
- The case of Sandro Girgvliani’s murder who was killed in 2006.
In both cases, Saakashvili was found guilty of the abuse of power.
The cases which are currently being heard in Tbilisi City Court are as followed:
- The case of TV channel Imedi’s unlawful raiding by riot police in February 2008.
- The case of the violent dispersal of anti-government mass protests on November 7, 2007
- The case of illegal take-over of the tycoon Badri (Arkadi) Patarkatsishvili’s property who founded TV channel Imedi back in the early 2000s and was stripped of ownership of the channel after the raid
- The case of the embezzlement of state funds of 9,024,367 GEL.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia has stated today that Saakashvili additionally will be charged with illegal border crossing.
Saakashvili has been detained earlier today after he published two videos from the seaside town of Batumi saying that he is already in Georgia ahead of the October 2 municipal elections and urged the country’s citizens to vote against the ruling party.
Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili announced the arrest of the former president earlier today.
He has been transferred to the 12th penitentiary institution in Rustavi.
Saakashvili served as the country’s third president from 2004 to 2013 and left Georgia back in 2013 after the Georgian Dream (GD) came to power in 2012.