The court sealed Saakashvili's sentence
On January 5, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in absentia to three years in prison, having considered the case of the murder of Sandro Girgvliani, an employee of the United Bank of Georgia, in 2006, reports TASS.
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Saakashvili was found guilty under the article “abuse of official powers,” the court ruling says. According to the investigation, in November 2008, Saakashvili, abusing his official powers, promised the head of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia to pardon those convicted of the murder of Girgvliani, and in 2008, bypassing the pardon commission, Saakashvili, by his decrees, pardoned the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Gerontius Alania, Mikhail Bibiluridze , Avtandil Aptsiauri and Alexander Gachav, thereby creating a legal basis for their parole.”
In 2014, the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia brought charges against Saakashvili in the “Girgvliani case”. According to investigators, “in accordance with a coordinated and mutually agreed upon criminal plan in 2006, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili, the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, a number of officials committed a cover-up of the crime, falsification of the investigation, covering up for high-ranking officials involved in the crime and facilitating evasion of responsibility.”
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