Ex-Minister of Defense of Georgia Bacho Akhala will leave prison on March 1. This was announced by his lawyer Ani Nadareishvili, reports “News-Georgia.”
According to the lawyer, Akhala did not count the period of detention before pardons and the countdown of the nine-year sentence was initiated from the moment of sentencing.
Bacho Akhala is a high-ranking official in the government of the third president Mikhail Saakashvili. He was detained in November 2012, a month after the parliamentary elections and came to power in the country of the party “Georgian Dream”.
Ex-Minister was acquitted in two criminal cases – on the organization of inhuman treatment with special forces, as well as torture, illegal deprivation of freedom and exceeding official powers in relation to the military.
The guilty Akhalay was recognized in the inhuman handling of prisoners during the suppression of the “prison rear” in 2006, but Mikhail Saakashvili, who was president of Georgia before the fall of 2013.
in the case of “Nastlug special operation” of 2006, during which three people were killed, Akhalay in 2014 was awarded 7 years and 6 months of prison.
In 2018, Akhalay was found guilty of organizing torture accused in the espionage of Colonel Sergo Tetradze and sentenced to 9 years in prison.