The Public Services Development Agency considered it appropriate to terminate Georgian citizenship for Otar Partskhaladze

The Public Services Development Agency considered it appropriate to terminate Georgian citizenship for Otar Partskhaladze. The Ministry of Justice disseminates information about this.

The conclusion was sent to the President.

"Based on the public interest, we are disseminating information that the Public Services Development Agency has considered it appropriate to terminate the Georgian citizenship of Otar Partskhaladze. The relevant conclusion has been forwarded to the President of Georgia," the statement reads.

For information, the USA imposed sanctions on the former Prosecutor General of Georgia Otar Partskhaladze. According to the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, within the framework of the new sanctions package, sanctions were imposed on 24 individuals, including Otar Partskhaladze. The US State Department refers to Otar Partskhaladze as a Georgian-Russian oligarch with whom Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) worked to influence Georgian society and politics in Russia's favor.

Following this, the State Security Service has started studying the issue of the sanctoning of Otar Partskhaladze, the former Prosecutor General of Georgia by the United States of America.

According to the Organic Law of Georgia "On Georgian Citizenship", a citizen of Georgia will lose his Georgian citizenship if s/he acquires the citizenship of another country, unless s/he has retained his/her Georgian citizenship upon acquiring the citizenship of another country. A Georgian citizen will retain his/her Georgian citizenship if s/he receives the consent of the Georgian state to maintain his/her Georgian citizenship before acquiring the citizenship of another country. The law directly stipulates that upon obtaining the citizenship of another country, in order to maintain the citizenship of Georgia, there must be prior consent of the relevant agency of Georgia. Therefore, obtaining the citizenship of a foreign country without the prior consent of the state is the basis for the loss of citizenship for Otar Partskhaladze.

According to the administration of the President of Georgia, Otar Partskhaladze did not apply to the relevant agency in order to maintain his Georgian citizenship. In addition, yesterday, the President announced that she is waiting for a decision on the termination of Georgian citizenship for Otar Partskhaladze, which she will immediately approve.