Prosecutor's Office requests extradition of wanted former official from German, Belgian authorities
The body said it had been implementing “all measures” to bring individuals who had committed crimes in Georgia to justice “regardless of their location”. Photo: Prosecutor's Office of Georgia
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The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has asked German and Belgium authorities to arrest and extradite Zurab Adeishvili, the wanted former Prosecutor General and Justice Minister of Georgia, back to the country, the Georgian Public Broadcaster said on Monday.
The Office’s statement followed media reports that said Adeishvili, an official in the former United National Movement Government, last month visited the European Union and German official structures as part of an official delegation of Ukraine.
The body said it had been implementing “all measures” to bring individuals who had committed crimes in Georgia to justice “regardless of their location”.
Ilia Darchiashvili, the country’s Foreign Minister, earlier today met Paweł Herczyński, the European Union Ambassador to Georgia, and Peter Fischer, the German Ambassador to the country, to communicate the Government’s concerns on the visit of Adeishvili.
The meetings followed the Government’s comments earlier in the day that said Adeishvili had been “one of the masterminds” behind the “repressive” former United National Movement “regime” that had “continuously trampled democratic and legal statehood principles” in Georgia, along with “basic human rights and freedoms” and independence of the Georgian judiciary.