“Look at the ridiculous ‘legal’ manipulation we are dealing with. After the discovery of the 6 million dollars appropriated by Garibashvili (he has hidden a hundred times more), he was sentenced to five years, and they said this was not an official crime. Meanwhile, I was sentenced to nine years not for appropriation, but supposedly for embezzlement, based on charges brought by the hired killer Farchaladze,” Georgia’s third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, wrote on his Facebook page.

According to Saakashvili, “Bidzina Ivanishvili sees in me the greatest threat to ending and uprooting the criminal system of governance.”

“Look at what a ridiculous ‘legal’ manipulation is taking place. After the discovery of the 6 million dollars appropriated by Garibashvili (he has hidden a hundred times more), he was sentenced to five years and it was declared not to be an abuse of office, while I, based on charges brought by the hired killer Farchaladze, was sentenced to nine years not for appropriation, but supposedly for embezzlement. This distinction was made so that Garibashvili would fall under the amnesty and, by chance, I would not - that’s all there is to it! Of course, many ‘objective observers’ will fail to notice this detail, because they find it hard to admit that for Ivanishvili, very many things revolve around me. He sees in me the greatest threat to ending and uprooting criminal governance. This is also why my page is being flooded with troll-bots and new accusations,” Saakashvili wrote on social media.