Georgia has set up a commission to study Saakashvili's crimes

The Georgian parliament has set up a commission to study systemic crimes and assess the regime of former President Mikheil Saakashvili, the meeting was broadcast on Wednesday on the website of the legislative body.

Eighty-three MPs voted in favor of the project to create the commission.

Earlier, the ruling Georgian Dream party said that the commission will work for 6 months and will prepare a report, which the Georgian parliament will consider and approve by the first week of the parliamentary session in September. The approved report will be handed over to the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia and other relevant bodies in order to take follow-up measures and punish the perpetrators.

Executive Secretary of the political force Mamuka Mdinaradze said earlier that among the crimes of the Saakashvili regime to be studied by the parliamentary commission is the organized system of torture in penitentiary institutions, murder of people, violence, invasion of privacy, corruption and pressure on business, taking away the media from their legitimate owners. Also, according to the politician, the circumstances of the beginning of the war in South Ossetia in 2008 with the participation of the former president's regime will be studied.

Reprinted from ria.ru