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17 of February, 16:31

Georgia appealed to Ukraine with a request to extradite Saakashvili
Magee, Kikaleyshvili. Chief Prosecutor of Georgia appealed to the Prosecutor General's office of Ukraine with the request for the arrest and extradition to his homeland ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili and former Minister of justice Zurab Adeishvili.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko 14 February signed an order appointing Saakashvili, who is in the domestic investigation in Georgia, his adviser, and the decree Of his appointment as Chairman of the international Advisory Board of the reforms under the President. The Adeishvili, who is wanted by Interpol at the request of the Georgian authorities for the act of misconduct, advises the Ukrainian government from groups working on anti-corruption legislation.

"because Mikhail Saakashvili and Zurab Adeishvili in Georgia formulated accusations, and they wanted, and along with this, he wanted the red circular, and, according to the information received, these persons are in Ukraine, General Prosecutor's office of Georgia appealed to the Prosecutor General's office of Ukraine with the request for the establishment and detention mentioned persons and their extradition ", - reported in the main appeal of the Prosecutor's office of Georgia, released Tuesday.

The prosecution stresses that the extradition of wanted persons between Georgia and Ukraine is carried out by the European Convention on extradition "from 1957, the Minsk Convention of 1993 on legal assistance in civil, family and criminal cases" and under a bilateral Treaty On legal assistance in civil and criminal matters and On legal relations." Despite existing between countries in the field of extradition to the above obligation, the Ukrainian side did not cooperate on the issue of extradition of Mikhail Saakashvili and Zurab Adeishvili and refuses extradition of wanted persons ", - noted in circulation.

Saakashvili left Georgia after the inauguration of a new President Giorgi Margvelashvili in November 2013. The chief Prosecutor's office of Georgia in absentia charged him in several criminal cases, and among them About the embezzlement of about $5 million of state funds for personal needs. The gun is wanted by Interpol after a request of the authorities of Georgia in 2013. At home he is charged with abuse of power, abuse of office in order to receive benefits, the organization inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners in the falsification of evidence in the criminal case.

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