Georgian ex-PM Merabishvili gets 4 more years of jail

Tbilisi city court has declared Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili guilty of excess of power during a crackdown on the opposition on May 26, 2011, and sentenced him to 4 years and six months in jail, RIA Novosti reports.His lawyers plan to appeal the decision.Merabishvili sentenced to 5 years imprisonment on February 17 for bribing voters, acquisition and waste of state funds, abuse of power and illegal acquisition of a country house in Kvariati

Tbilisi city court has declared Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili guilty of excess of power during a crackdown on the opposition on May 26, 2011, and sentenced him to 4 years and six months in jail, RIA Novosti reports.

His lawyers plan to appeal the decision.

Merabishvili sentenced to 5 years imprisonment on February 17 for bribing voters, acquisition and waste of state funds, abuse of power and illegal acquisition of a country house in Kvariati