FILE - Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili who was convicted in absentia of abuse of power during his presidency and arrested upon his return from exile, gestures speaking from a ...

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned since 2021, was sentenced on Wednesday to nine more years in jail after being found guilty of embezzlement. Saakashvili ...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A court in Georgia on Wednesday convicted imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili on embezzlement charges and handed him another prison term of nine years.

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Georgia's imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili has been sentenced to nine years in jail by a Tbilisi city court for misspending public funds, extending his term by three more years.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Tbilisi City Court found Saakashvili guilty of embezzling over $3.2 million in state funds and sentenced him to nine years in prison TBILISI, March 12. /TASS/.

The Tbilisi City Court on Wednesday jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to nine years in prison for embezzling public funds. The court found Saakashvili guilty of using state ...

A court in Georgia has handed ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili a new nine-year prison sentence after finding him guilty of embezzlement. The ruling, announced on Wednesday, extends the detention ...