Vakhtang Gomelauri
Vakhtang Gomelauri | |
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ვახტანგ გომელაური | |
 Gomelauri in 2017 | |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | |
| Assumed office September 8, 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Giorgi Gakharia Irakli Garibashvili Irakli Kobakhidze |
| Preceded by | Giorgi Gakharia |
| In office January 26, 2015 – August 3, 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Irakli Garibashvili |
| Preceded by | Alexsandre Chikaidze |
| Succeeded by | Giorgi Mghebrishvili |
| Head of the State Security Service of Georgia | |
| In office July 25, 2015 – September 8, 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Irakli Garibashvili Giorgi Kvirikashvili Mamuka Bakhtadze |
| Preceded by | position reestablished |
| Succeeded by | Grigol Liluashvili |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 December 1974 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Georgian Dream |
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Vakhtang Gomelauri (Georgian: ვახტანგ გომელაური, born 24 December 1974) is a Georgian politician, who is the Incumbent Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia[1] and former chief of the State Security Service of Georgia from 25 July 2015 to 9 September 2019.[2] Gomelauri is a close associate of Georgia's richest man Bidzina Ivanishvili.
On 19 December 2024, the United States and the United Kingdom adopted economic sanctions against Gomelauri due to his involvement in violent attacks and other grave human rights abuses against Georgian protesters and journalists.[3] Earlier he was also sanctioned by the Baltic States for the same reasons.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Georgian PM, President pay tribute to soldiers fallen in Shindisi battle". Agenda.ge. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ^ "Interior Minister Appointed as National Security Council Secretary". Civil.ge. 2020-02-19. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ^ Britain, US sanction Georgian officials over crackdown on pro-EU protesters, Reuters: December 19, 2024
- ^ Baltic countries sanction Georgian officials after violence against protestors, Politico: December 2, 2024
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