The court ordered Saakashvili and his former state security chief to return $3.3 million to the budget
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The Tbilisi City Court upheld the claim of the Ministry of Finance and ordered Georgia’s third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and the former head of the Special State Protection Service, Teimuraz Janashia, to return up to 9 million lari (about $3.3 million) to the state budget.
Saakashvili and Janashia were convicted of the embezzlement of large sums of budget funds by a group of individuals acting in collusion and abusing their official positions.
On March 12, 2025, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced Mikheil Saakashvili to 8 years in prison and imposed a fine of 300,000 lari on Teimuraz Janashia. Following this, the Ministry of Finance filed a civil lawsuit to recover funds from the convicts, which, according to the agency, amount to 9 million lari.
Today, the Court of Appeals upheld the verdict delivered by the court of first instance against Saakashvili and Janashia.
According to previous court rulings, Mikheil Saakashvili will remain imprisoned until April 1, 2034. He and his party consider all the verdicts politically motivated.
