Friday, December 5, 2025

Georgian justice minister asks France to extradite ex-minister

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Georgia’s Justice Minister Thea Tsulukiani. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s justice minister has asked her French colleague to extradite a former defense minister who faces two separate criminal cases at home.

Former Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili left Georgia for France after the National Movement lost the

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Former Georgian defense minister remains detained in France

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Davit Kezerashvili was defense minister during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A court in France has confirmed the detention of former Georgian Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili.

Kezerashvili is charged with abuse of powers while he was defense minister and was detained at Nice airport on October 15.

A court placed him in 40

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Former Georgian defense minister detained in France

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Davit Kezerashvili was defense minister during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Georgian defense minister has been detained in France.

According to the Interior Ministry, Davit Kezerashvili, who served in President Saakashvili’s government, was detained on Monday in France in a joint operation between Interpol’s Paris

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New book details ownership in Misha's Georgia

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Freelance journalist Paul Rimple’s book started with a trip to the corner shop to buy chocolate. (Photo: Londa Beria.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–After the election for parliament last year, the process of changing and reallocation ownership has begun, says journalist Paul Rimple, who has published a new book called Who Owned Georgia.

In it, he vividly depicts the very sophisticated quasi-legal

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