Georgia demands from Azerbaijan to detain and extradite Saakashvili
The chief Prosecutor's office of Georgia appealed to the Azerbaijan demanding the arrest and extradition of the former head of the Georgian country Mikhail Saakashvili, reports the Agency "news-Georgia" on Wednesday.
Saakashvili, who is a freelance advisers to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko arrived in Baku on Tuesday and took part in the III Global forum of open societies on Tuesday.
"Our Ministry yesterday (Tuesday) addressed a demand to the Azerbaijani side about the detention and further extradition of Mikheil Saakashvili to the homeland ", - quotes Agency "" the Deputy chief of Department on public relations and mass media of the main office of the Prosecutor Natia Sukhiashvili on Wednesday.
The Georgian side until not received an official response from Azerbaijan.
in 2014, the Chief Prosecutor's office of Georgia in absentia brought ex-President charged under several criminal cases of embezzlement of about $ 5 million of state funds for personal needs, about the abuse of power in the case of the dispersal of the rally on 7 November 2007, about beating Gelashvili and murder of an employee of United Bank of Georgia " Sandro Girgvliani in 2006.
Saakashvili left Georgia in the days of the inauguration of the new President Giorgi Margvelashvili in November 2013 and since then has not returned home, refusing to answer questions prosecutors and cooperating with the investigation. He declared in the domestic investigation.