An official request from Georgians came to Kyiv - about the arrest and extradition of Saakashvili
Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine for European Integration Sergei Petukhov states that the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has received a request from the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia for the arrest and extradition of the former President of Georgia, ex-head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili.
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“Ukraine has received a request to search for, take into custody and extradite Mikheil Saakashvili. The request from the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia was addressed to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine,” reports a PolitNavigator correspondent with reference to the department’s press service.
Petukhov noted that according to the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, Saakashvili is accused in 4 criminal proceedings opened under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Georgia: Art. 182, which provides for liability for misappropriation, embezzlement or taking possession of someone else's property by an official abusing his position, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons on a large scale; Art. 333 and Art. 117 - abuse of official position by an official, committed through violence or with the use of weapons; Part 2 of Article 332 - abuse of position by an official.
The Deputy Minister of Justice said that by the decision of the judge of the criminal cases panel of the Tbilisi City Court dated August 2, 2014, Saakashvili was chosen as a preventive measure in the form of detention.
As reported, on July 26 it became known that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko issued a decree depriving Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship. The politician himself was in the USA at that time; later he arrived in Poland on a Ukrainian passport, then went to Lithuania. He is now in Denmark.
Saakashvili later announced that he would return to Ukraine on September 10 through the Krakovets checkpoint in the Lviv region.
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