The Tbilisi City Court sentenced former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to four and a half years in prison for illegal border crossing, reports the TV channel Mtavari.
Last week, Saakashvili was already sentenced in the case of «misappropriation of budget funds» amounting to 9 million lari, which is about 3.2 million dollars, sentencing him to nine years in prison.
Before that, he had already been sentenced in two other cases — for pardoning the murderers of Sandro Girgvliani and for the beating of deputy Valeri Gelashvili, sentencing him to a total of six years in prison.
The former president of Georgia returned to the country in October 2021 and was detained on charges of abuse of power during the dispersal of the 2007 rally, embezzlement of the state budget, and illegal border crossing. Seven months later, he was transferred for treatment to the Vivamedi clinic for examinations — he remains there to this day.