Prosecutor’s Office charges owner of flat where ex-president Saakashvili was hiding before detention
Mikheil Saakashvili, who is a citizen of Ukraine, was detained in Tbilisi on October 1. Photo: IPN.
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Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has charged the owner of a flat where ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili was hiding before being recently detained.
The Prosecutor's Office says that the owner of the flat, identified only as E.Ts., knew that Saakashvili was wanted by Georgian law enforcement officers for serious crimes. Nevertheless, E.Ts. handed over his apartment to Saakashvili for temporary residence and hiding.
Georgian police officers detained E.Ts on October 1. He may face one to four years in prison if convicted.
Mikheil Saakashvili, who is a citizen of Ukraine, was detained in Tbilisi on October 1.
Saakashvili, who served as Georgia’s president in 2003-2013, is charged with several criminal offences including the violent dispersal of anti-government mass protests on November 7, 2007, raiding of TV channel Imedi by riot police, and the illegal seizure of the property.
In a letter from the Rustavi detention facility ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili said all criminal accusations against him are false. Saakashvili also said that when he ‘left everything in Kyiv’ and arrived in Georgia he was aware that ‘most probably’ he would be detained.