Georgia court announced a new sentence to Saakashvili

Now the total term for the end of the third president of Georgia has increased to 12.6 years in prison.

The City of Tbilisi City Court punished the former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili for 4 years and 6 months in prison for illegal border crossing in 2021. It was reported by Newsgeorgia on Monday, March 17.

“In Georgia, the principle of” penalty absorption “is forced for many sentences, but in rare cases, the court can use this principle only partly (Article 59 of the Criminal Code), which is not expected today: by 4.6 years the court added eight years from the budget sentence last week, when Saakashvili continued for 9 years The report.

It was noted that the ex-president was not present in the announcement of the sentence. And considered the new decision, once Saakashvili issued four sentences:

• March 17, 2025 – 4.6 years in prison for illegal border crossing;

• March 14, 2025 – 9 years in prison in case of losses of budget funds (the case “case of jackets”);

• 2018 – 6 years for abuse of powers when police were convicted of killing Sandro Girgvliani in 2006;

• 2018 – 3 years in the case of Deputy Valery Gelary Gelashvili in 2005.

Now another thing remains in labor – about the dispersion of the opposition rally on November 7, 2007. In this case, Saakashvili was accused under the article on the excessive official authority of the use of violence (part 3 of Article 333 of the Criminal Code of Georgia), from 5 to 8 years in prison.

Saakashvili considers all the accusations against him political motivation. He has spent 3.5 years in prison, most of which are in a special room at the Vivamed Clinic, which serves the penitentiary system.

The ruling party of the Georgian dream has repeatedly said that the intent to judge the third president for the 2008 war. In the near future, the Criminal Code plans to restore the article to the state treason and, perhaps, Saakashvili has made a new charge.

As you know, in early October 2021, Saakashvili secretly arrived in Georgia from Ukraine the day before the local election. At that time, he had been sentenced to absentia in his homeland in two criminal cases and two others were in trial. He was confined to Tbilisi on October 1, and they soon opened a new case under Article 344 of the Criminal Code of Georgia (illegal state border crossing).

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