Lviv Regional Prosecutor Oleksandr Chukhriy has handed a bill of indictment to David Sakvarelidze, an associate of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and a member of the Movement of New Forces, thereby charging him with a number of offences connected to the events on the Ukrainian-Polish border on September 10, 2017.

Sakvarelidze posted a scan of the indictment bill drafted on January 24 and dated January 25 on his Facebook account.

The bill of indictment says that Sakvarelidze is charged with playing an active role in group actions that led to the significant disruption of a government institution's operations, facilitating the illegal transfer of people across the Ukrainian border by removing obstacles in collusion with other individuals, resisting law enforcement officials performing their duties, and exerting influence on a law enforcement official to prevent him from performing his duties.

Sakvarelidze was notified on September 14 that he was suspected of committing a number of offences.

Lviv's Halytsky District Court started a hearing on a restrictive measure for Sakvarelidze on September 15. Sakvarelidze himself asked the judge not to impose any restrictions on him, assuring him that he would appear in court and before the investigator to testify.

The court ruled on September 16 not to impose any restrictive measures on Sakvarelidze.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko deprived Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship in 2017, when the latter was abroad. Saakashvili arrived in Ukraine on the evening of September 10, after his supporters had gathered at the Shehyni checkpoint and essentially forced their way across the border from the Ukrainian side, thus helping him cross it.