Magee Kikaleyshvili. The Ministry of justice of Georgia until did not appeal to President Giorgi Margvelashvili on the issue of deprivation of Georgian citizenship of ex-President, now head of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili said the parliamentary Secretary to the head of the country George Kverenchhiladze correspondents on Tuesday.

first in October the head of the Ministry of justice of Georgia Thea tsulukiani said that the Ministry has begun the process of depriving Saakashvili Georgian citizenship, because has received from the Ukrainian side an official document about the capture of the ex-President of the Ukrainian passport. According to Georgian law, Georgian citizen automatically loses Georgian citizenship if acquired the citizenship of any other country. However, the necessary technical procedures, such as special service of the Ministry of justice shall prepare an opinion on the cause of citizenship Saakashvili and to petition for his stop to the country's President.

"the law of Georgia on citizenship recognizes unacceptable to the Georgian citizen was simultaneously a citizen of another country. One of the grounds for deprivation of Georgian citizenship is to obtain a Georgian citizen acquires another citizenship. Head monthly, receives hundreds of opinions from the relevant services of the Ministry of justice with similar grounds for terminating citizenship. At the moment service of the Ministry of justice appealed to the President in the case of the former President, " said Kverenchhiladze.

in his vision, " as soon as the Ministry of justice will appeal to the head of country, head will make the same decision in similar situations on other Residents, i.e. it will stop Saakashvili Georgian citizenship ".

The ex-President of Georgia Saakashvili left the country after the inauguration of the new President George Margvelashvili in November 2013. The chief Prosecutor's office of Georgia in absentia charged him in several criminal cases, and among them of embezzlement of about $ 5 million of state funds for personal needs. Later Saakashvili was declared by the Georgian authorities in the investigation.-0 -

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