Georgian Ministry of Justice accuses Polish doctor of trying to export Saakashvili’s tests

The Ministry of Justice of Georgia has accused a doctor from Poland of trying to secretly take out the tests of the convicted former president of the country Mikheil Saakashvili. This is stated in the statement of the department, which led Sputnik Georgia publication.

“During the visit, an incomprehensible incident took place on the part of one Polish doctor. In particular, the doctor wrapped a sample taken from the convicted Mikheil Saakashvili in paper and tried to secretly take it out in his shoe,” the Ministry of Justice said.

On July 12, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced that Polish doctors were sent to examine the ex-president of Georgia. Now Saakashvili is undergoing treatment in a Tbilisi clinic.

Saakashvili, who served as President of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, faced several criminal cases in the country, in two of which he was sentenced to a total of nine years in prison. In early 2018, he was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison in connection with the 2006 murder of an employee of the United Bank of Georgia. The politician was found guilty of abuse of office. In June of the same year, he received another six years in prison for the 2005 beating of opposition MP Valery Gelashvili.

Saakashvili was detained in Georgia on October 1, 2021. He returned to the country shortly before the first round of the municipal elections. Initially, the politician was in the prison of the city of Rustavi, and in May 2022 he was transferred to a Tbilisi clinic for a medical examination. Doctors revealed a spinal injury in him, the ex-president of Georgia needed an operation.