TBILISI – Georgian police have detained another person as part of a criminal case involving illegal crossing of the Georgian border by former President Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian Interior Ministry said in a statement.
“A person born in 1989 has been detained under a court ruling in connection with the criminal case involving the illegal crossing of the Georgian border by Mikheil Saakashvili,” the Interior Ministry said.
The Interior Ministry earlier reported that three Georgian citizens had been detained for helping Saakashvili cross the border.
Saakashvili, former Georgian president and currently a citizen of Ukraine, secretly arrived in Georgia from Ukraine on Sept. 29. He was detained in Tbilisi on Oct. 1 and is currently being held in a Rustavi prison.
Georgia earlier declared Saakashvili wanted as a person convicted in absentia in several criminal cases and treated as a suspect in some others. The Georgian authorities warned repeatedly that he would be detained immediately after he crossed the border. Saakashvili has described his detention as unlawful and the charges brought against him as falsified.
