In office from 2004 to 2013, Saakashvili was convicted last week of embezzling 9 million Georgian lari ($3.3 million) via expenses claims for what prosecutors called "luxury" spending.

MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced on Monday to four-and-a-half more years in jail after being found guilty of illegally crossing the state ...

A controversial figure in Georgia, Saakashvili served as president from 2004 to 2013 before going into self-imposed exile in Ukraine for seven years. He was arrested in 2021 upon his return to ...

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.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was found guilty of illegally crossing the state border under Article 344 of the Criminal Code and sentenced to four years and six months in prison by the ...

Former President Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced to nine years in prison on March 12 by Judge Badri Kochlamazashvili in the so-called Jackets case, which centers on misappropriation of state funds.

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has been handed an additional four-and-a-half-year prison sentence for illegally crossing the state border, according to the Georgian news agency ...

TBILISI, March 12 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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.

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A court in Georgia on Monday handed another prison sentence to former President Mikheil Saakashvili, extending his total imprisonment to 12½ years, in a verdict that he ...