Saakashvili failed to avoid the obligation to pay $3 million to the budget

The Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the court of first instance, which ordered the President of Georgia and former head of the Odesa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili to pay up to 9 million GEL to the state budget, which is about 3 million USD.

This was reported by SOVA.

The former head of the State Protection Service , Teimuraz Janashia, was convicted along with him . In March 2025, the Tbilisi City Court found the third president of Georgia and former head of the Odesa Regional Administration Mikheil Saakashvili guilty of illegally crossing the borders of his homeland and sentenced him to four years and six months in prison.

Before that, he was sentenced to nine years for embezzlement of budget funds. The president was already serving a six-year sentence. He was convicted in the cases of pardoning the murderers of Sandro Girgvliani and the beating of MP Valeri Gelashvili. Former Georgian President and former head of Odesa region Mikheil Saakashvili was detained by Georgian law enforcement in early October 2021.

In May 2020, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed the former head of the Odesa Regional Administration Mikheil Saakashvili as the head of the executive committee of the National Reform Council.

At the time, Georgian Ambassador to Ukraine Teimuraz Sharashenidze had previously stated that his country would likely perceive the appointment of former head of the Odesa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine as an unfriendly and unacceptable step from the point of view of strategic partnership. At the time, Saakashvili did not become deputy prime minister.

However, it later became known that after Saakashvili was appointed head of the reform executive committee, Georgia did recall its ambassador from Ukraine for consultations.

Кирило Бойко