Former "United National Movement" MP Givi Targamadze has been sentenced by the Tbilisi City Court to seven months in prison for failing to comply with a request from the parliamentary temporary investigative commission. In addition, he has been banned from holding public office for two years.
Targamadze was not present at the court hearing.
He had been summoned to the parliamentary temporary investigative commission on April 3 but did not appear. He was charged under Article 349 of the Georgian Criminal Code, which provides for liability for "failure to comply with a request from the temporary investigative commission of the Parliament of Georgia."