Source: France 24 [French state media]
“A Georgia court on Wednesday sentenced pro-Western ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili to nine years in prison for misspending public funds, adding three years to the jail term he is currently serving. Saakashvili, 57, was sentenced in absentia in 2018 to six years behind bars for abuse of office, a charge his supporters have denounced as politically motivated. He was jailed and began serving the term in 2021, when he returned to the country. The European Parliament has called for his immediate release, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded that Saakashvili, a Ukrainian national since 2019, be transferred to Kyiv. On Wednesday, a Tbilisi city court ‘sentenced Saakashvili to nine years in prison’ in a case involving the misspending of public funds, his lawyer, Dito Sadzaglishvili, told AFP.” (03/12/25)