Elguja Tsomaia, the owner of the apartment where Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested, was sentenced to imprisonment.

Reportedly, it was Tsomaia who helped Saakashvili enter Georgia and ceded the apartment he owned to the former president.

Tsomaia was charged under the second part of Article 375 of the Criminal Code, which stipulates covering a particularly serious crime. According to his lawyers, the accusation is groundless because the criminal code does not include such a crime at all, and the fact that the accused did not inform the police about Mikheil Saakashvili’s entry into Georgia does not mean that he did not report the crime.