Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been given another 4.5 years in prison for illegally crossing the Georgian border. The total sentence is now 12.5 years, Georgian media reported on Monday.
Saakashvili is accused of illegally returning to Georgia by hiding in a trailer with dairy products that arrived from the Ukrainian city of Chernomorsk.
Saakashvili was recently sentenced to nine years in prison for embezzlement of state funds. Earlier, he also received a six-year sentence for beating MP Valerie Gelashvili and for pardoning the killers of bank employee Sandro Girgvliani.
Saakashvili considers all of his sentences politically motivated and says the ruling Georgian Dream party is seeking his life imprisonment.
Another criminal case remains pending, related to the violent dispersal of a demonstration in Tbilisi in 2007 and the seizure of the Imedi television station.
