Former Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili imprisoned for 9 years on embezzlement charges

12 Mar 2025, 14:29 by Paul Godfrey · UPI

March 12 (UPI) -- A court in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday sentenced the country's former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, to nine years in prison after being convicted of embezzling millions of dollars of public funds for his own use.

The prison term imposed by Tbilisi City Court Judge Badri Kochlamazashvili will run concurrently with a six-year sentence Saakashvili began serving in 2021 for abuse of power.