Mikheil Saakashvili, of all people, has become a “presidential advisor” to Ukraine’s new incumbent, Petro Poroshenko. The Georgian government is understandably rather upset that Ukraine, a country it sees as a friend, has appointed him to such a key post. This is not because they disagree with his politics, but because Sakkashvili is wanted on a multitude of criminal charges.
Georgia’s ex-PM Bidzina Ivanishvili, the man parachuted in to cleanse the country of Saakashvili and his gang, has recently described Poroshenko’s decision to appoint a wanted criminal as an advisor as “regrettable.” He might have added that there are also many other former Georgian government members “advising” Poroshenko. So many in fact that a disturbing pattern is emerging, reminiscent to that of the ex-Nazis who mysteriously appeared as advisors to US-aligned South American dictatorships after World War Two.
Amongst the wanted criminals in Ukraine is Zurab Adeishvili, the former Justice Minister, who has no official post in the Ukrainian government but is advising it informally, according to others now working there. Former Georgian healthcare minister Alexander Kvitashvili, a man with a long record of promoting and profiting from institutional corruption, now has the same job in Ukraine, having been granted instant citizenship.
Ex-deputy interior minister Eka Zguladze has also now transferred to the same job in Ukraine, despite having been elected by no one. Gia Getsadze, who was a member of Saakashvili’s administration till mid-2005, is now Ukraine’s Deputy Justice Minister, and three other former Georgian government members work in that ministry. Some members of these people’s families have documented CIA and NGO links, as reported in the international media, as in the case of Kvitashvili’s wife and her long-term CIA contacts.New Eastern Outlook
Georgia is trying to get many of these people, Saakashvili included, extradited to face the courts, but Ukraine is refusing to play ball, regardless of the nature of the charges against them. It is beyond coincidence that these criminals are suddenly appearing in, and being protected by, the latest US project, just as they were in Georgia for so long, until they were routed by the electors and escaped the country.…
Georgian Government Upset with Poroshenko’s “Presidential Advisor” and his Minions
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