Tbilisi City Court sentences Giorgi Vashadze to seven months in prison following failure to comply with request of Parliament’s Temporary Investigative Commission

Tbilisi City Court on Tuesday sentenced Giorgi Vashadze, the leader of the Strategy Agmashenebeli opposition party, to seven months in prison and banned him from holding public office for two years.

Vashadze did not attend the court hearing.

Vashadze was summoned to the temporary investigative commission of the Parliament on April 15 but did not appear.

He was charged under Article 349 of the Criminal Code, which concerns - failure to comply with the request of the temporary investigative commission of the Parliament of Georgia.

On April 23, the Tbilisi City Court imposed a preventive measure of a 50,000 GEL bail on Vashadze for failing to appear before the investigative commission, which he paid within the legally established deadline.