UNM member Bokuchava: Saakashvili says he entered Georgia in line with mandatory procedures

Member of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party Tina Bokuchava says that Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili entered the country ‘in line with all mandatory procedures and rules.’ 

 

“He has refrained from going into details,” Bokuchava told journalists after she visited Saakashvili in  the 12th prison in Rustavi. 

 

The Georgian Interior Ministry claimed yesterday that Saakashvili had not crossed the Georgian border. 

 

Saakashvili was arrested in Tbilisi late yesterday after he returned to Georgia ahead of today’s municipal elections ‘to put an end to the Georgian Dream governance.’ 

 

The Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office is now investigating how he crossed into the country from Ukraine. 

 

Saakashvili was convicted in Georgia back in 2018 and he must have been arrested if found at the border, while he was detained in the outskirts of Tbilisi, in a flat, yesterday.