The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia has announced that a plea agreement has been concluded with the accused former prime minister, Irakli Garibashvili. According to the statement, he has been sentenced to five years of imprisonment. From the courtroom of the Tbilisi City Court, he was transferred to a penitentiary facility.
Garibashvili, who is charged with money laundering on a particularly large scale, is also required to pay an additional fine of 1 million lari (approximately 370,000 US dollars). In addition, a sum of money “obtained as a result of criminal activity and seized during a search of his residence” will be confiscated in favor of the state.
“Irakli Garibashvili admits to the crime committed and agrees to the terms of the plea agreement. The court has already granted the prosecution’s motion for a plea agreement,” the statement says.
Without the plea agreement, Garibashvili would have faced a prison sentence of 9 to 12 years.
Earlier, Georgia’s Prosecutor General Giorgi Gvarakidze stated that while holding public office, Garibashvili “secretly and covertly carried out various entrepreneurial activities,” receiving illegally obtained income on a particularly large scale, and also provided false information in his asset declarations.
As a result of a search conducted on October 17, 2025, USD 6.5 million was discovered and seized in Garibashvili’s apartment.
On October 24, the court imposed a preventive measure on Garibashvili in the form of bail amounting to 1 million lari, secured by real estate. He was also banned from leaving the country.