The court appointed Saakashvili penalty for illegally crossing the Ukrainian border
KIEV, 22 Sep — RIA Novosti. Mostyska district court of Lviv region declared the ex-President of Georgia, former Governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili is guilty of illegal border crossing and sentenced him to a fine in the amount of 3400 UAH (about $ 130), said on Friday the presiding judge Yuriy Bilous.
The state border service of Ukraine said earlier that has a claim against Saakashvili only for “illegal border crossing”. The sanction for this administrative offence provides for a fine of up to $ 325. The lawyer Saakashvili Markiyan Halabala has told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainian authorities based on the decision of Mostiska of the court to start the mechanism of the expulsion policy of Ukraine as persons without citizenship who committed an administrative offense.
“The judge ruled: to recognize Saakashvili is guilty in committing an administrative offense provided by article 204 of the code of Ukraine about administrative offenses (illegal crossing of the border — ed.) and to impose administrative penalty of a fine to the state revenue in the amount of 200 tax-free minimum incomes of citizens is 3400 hryvnia,” — said Bilous in the course of the hearing, which was broadcast on the website of the judiciary of Ukraine.