Ex-president of Georgia, leader of the New Forces Movement party, ex-head of Odesa regional state administration, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been detained, according to law-enforcement officials.
"He has been detained. He was put in a car and taken away. A notice of suspicion is being prepared and a preventive measure will be chosen in the near future," a source in Ukraine's law enforcement agencies told the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
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