Georgian prosecutors summon ex-president Saakashvili for questioning


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  • Saturday, 22 Mar 2014

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili speaks during news conference in Kiev, December 7, 2013. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

TBILISI (Reuters) - The Georgian prosecutor's office has summoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili for questioning about the poisoning death of a former prime minister and other cases amid a wave of charges and verdicts against former officials.

He will also be questioned on alleged government misspending, a raid on a Tbilisi television station and a presidential pardon for four murder convicts during his two terms in office from 2004 to 2013, prosecutor Koka Katsitadze told a news conference on Saturday

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