Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili proposed to the Georgian authorities to grant him temporary official status as a representative of the state leadership and to postpone the consideration of the criminal cases against him until autumn.
This was reported by RIA Novosti.
In response, Saakashvili promised to bring to the country 5.5 billion dollars from foreign partners to repair the damage caused to the country’s economy by coronavirus.
“After autumn, you can continue my legal proceedings, convict me of various cases and so on. Give me the status of temporary official representative of the leadership of Georgia in only one issue – in the process of receiving foreign aid, and I give a guarantee that I will bring 5.5 billion of aid – enough to save the economy of the country”, – thought to pay off the persecution of Saakashvili.
At the same time he assured that he is ready to apply for support from international financial organizations and European political leaders, whom he knows personally. Saakashvili believes that the economic crisis emerging against the backdrop of the Coronavirus Pandemic may lead Georgia to poverty and hunger.
Mikheil Saakashvili left Georgia in November 2013. The country’s Prosecutor’s Office has charged in absentia with several criminal cases, including the misappropriation of about five million dollars of budget funds for personal needs. In 2014, the Tbilisi court arrested the former president in absentia.