16-05-2026
Tbilisi
Bank Accounts of Aleksi (Buka) Petriashvili Subjected to Seizure

The bank accounts of Aleksi (Buka) Petriashvili, former State Minister for European Integration, were subjected to seizure. He learned about this after leaving the temporary detention facility following three days of administrative detention. “I came out and found my account seized,” he wrote on social media on 16 May.

On 14 May, Judge Tornike Kapanadze of Tbilisi City Court imposed three days of administrative detention on Aleksi Petriashvili for standing on the sidewalk. The Ministry of Internal Affairs alleged that, on 17 December, Petriashvili had created an obstruction to pedestrian movement on the sidewalk in front of Parliament

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Financial Sanctions | Seizures / Account Freezing
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Persecution Due to Civil Activism
Tbilisi