23:40, 28 July 2014

Georgia's GPO accuses Mikhail Saakashvili of excess of power

Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. Photo: http://www.svoboga.org/content/article/481838.html

Today, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia has announced about the presentation of charges of excess of power and dignity humiliation to the former President Mikhail Saakashvili; the latter has treated the charges as political.

On July 27, the GPO announced that Mikhail Saakashvili had been summoned for questioning. The former president left the country immediately after the inauguration of a new president in November 2013, and since then did not come home. Today, Saakashvili has failed to appear at the GPO for questioning as a witness; and the GPO has stated that in the near future Saakashvili may be charged under one or more criminal cases, in which he appears as a witness.

Mikhail Saakashvili is prosecuted on charges of dispersing the oppositional rally in November 2007; the pogrom at the "Imedi" TV Company; and alienation of property from billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, the "Interfax" reports referring to the statement of the Georgia's GPO.

Saakashvili himself denies the charges.