MOSCOW, December 5 (RAPSI) - Ex-Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili has been charged with plotting a coup in Ukraine, his attorney Pavel Bogomazov has told journalists.
On Tuesday, Saakashvili was arrested on the roof of his house in Kiev. Searches were conducted in the apartment of Georgia’s ex-President, Ukrainian MP Yury Derevyanko wrote on his Facebook page.
On December 3, a protest march of the Movement of New Forces party led by Saakashvili was held in Kiev. Protesters called for impeachment of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.
In July 2017, Poroshenko stripped Saakashvili, who was appointed the Odessa region governor in May 2015, of his Ukrainian citizenship. However, Saakashvili said in August that he is going to come back to Ukraine from Poland on September 10, 2017.
A criminal case over illegal border crossing was opened in Ukraine after Saakashvili broke through the country’s border, the Ukrainian police reported on September 11. Eleven police officers were injured during the security operation near a border crossing checkpoint, according to police.
On September 22, a court in Ukraine found ex-Odessa governor guilty of illegal border crossing and fined him 3,400 hryvnia (about $130).
