Georgia: Saakashvili and Ex-security Chief Ordered to Pay 9 million Lari to State Budget
Former President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia at the European People’s Party Congress, June 20, 2013. Photo by European People’s Party, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
A court has ordered former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and former head of the Special State Protection Service Teimuraz Janashia to pay 9 million lari to the state budget, Orda.kz reports, citing NewsGeorgia.
The ruling is part of the so-called “jacket case”, which involved charges of large-scale embezzlement of state funds by a group of officials abusing their positions.
Saakashvili was previously sentenced to nine years in prison on these charges, while Janashia was fined 300,000 lari.
Following that, the state initiated a civil claim to recover the funds.
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