In the last several days there has been a period of relative calm in the political sphere in Georgia. That’s why journalists have to pay special attention to the prosecution of former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.New charges have recently been pressed against Saakashvili. Until then he had been charged with exceeding his official authority in two separate cases. Civil.ge. reports that the previous charges “stem from allegations that he used funds allocated from the state budget to the Special State Protection Service (SSPS), the agency in charge of providing security to high-ranking officials, for his and his close allies, friends and family members’ personal purposes.” The Messenger reports that the General Prosecutor’s office website has published a list of expenses, including a massage for Saakashvili and a spa for high-ranking officials.However, the politician vehemently denies the charges.“First they accused me of having stolen billions for myself and could not find the beginning of one tetri of such billions. Now they are obliged to fabricate evidence of an alleged 8 million misspent, most of it being simple basic falsifications,” Saakashvili posted on his Facebook post in the Georgian, English and Russian languages. “Their imagination and their physical addiction to prosecution could be funny if they were not in charge of the fate of our beloved Georgia now,” he says. “While dumping the brotherly nation of Ukraine in these historic times, they focus their energy and resources on prosecuting and jailing Georgian patriots,” Civil.ge cites Saakashvili.
In the last several days there has been a period of relative calm in the political sphere in Georgia. That’s why journalists have to pay special attention to the prosecution of former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.
New charges have recently been pressed against Saakashvili. Until then he had been charged with exceeding his official authority in two separate cases. Civil.ge. reports that the previous charges “stem from allegations that he used funds allocated from the state budget to the Special State Protection Service (SSPS), the agency in charge of providing security to high-ranking officials, for his and his close allies, friends and family members’ personal purposes.” The Messenger reports that the General Prosecutor’s office website has published a list of expenses, including a massage for Saakashvili and a spa for high-ranking officials.
However, the politician vehemently denies the charges.“First they accused me of having stolen billions for myself and could not find the beginning of one tetri of such billions. Now they are obliged to fabricate evidence of an alleged 8 million misspent, most of it being simple basic falsifications,” Saakashvili posted on his Facebook post in the Georgian, English and Russian languages. “Their imagination and their physical addiction to prosecution could be funny if they were not in charge of the fate of our beloved Georgia now,” he says. “While dumping the brotherly nation of Ukraine in these historic times, they focus their energy and resources on prosecuting and jailing Georgian patriots,” Civil.ge cites Saakashvili.
