Dawit Keserashvili
Dawit Keseraschwili ( Georgian დავით კეზერაშვილი ; born September 22, 1978 in the Georgian SSR ) is a Georgian politician ( United National Movement ). From February 2004 to November 2006 he was chief of the finance police in the Ministry of Finance and from November 2006 to December 2008 Minister of Defense of Georgia.
Life
As a teenager he lived in Israel for two years . He first emigrated from Georgia without his parents and lived with his grandmother in Cholon near Tel Aviv . After graduating from high school in 1995, he studied law at the State University of Tbilisi . 1999 passed a bachelor's degree.
In 2001 he became chief inspector in the penal reform department of the Ministry of Justice headed by Mikheil Saakashvili . In the same year he was promoted to head of the information and analysis department. In 2002 he moved with Saakashvili to the city council of Tbilisi , where he became its personal advisor as chairman. In October 2002 he co-founded the opposition party United National Movement , a predecessor of the current ruling party National Movement - Democrats .
As head of the newly established financial police, he had been directly subordinate to the Georgian President since February 2004. He made a name for himself with tough measures against corruption , embezzlement and tax offenses . In April 2005 he led the arrest of the President of the Georgian Football Association , Merab Schordania, who was accused of having diverted around one million US dollars from the coffers of his former club Dinamo Tbilisi and diverted it to Swiss accounts.
Keserashvili made himself unpopular with a raid on two full fast food restaurants in Tbilisi in June 2005. Employees of his department suddenly appeared masked and armed in the guest rooms, which caused panic among the children and adults present. The police chief had to apologize publicly.
In April 2005, the opposition Conservative Party accused him of having, together with his former deputy Zurab Zerodse, aided dealers in buying company cars. A tape recording that was supposed to prove this was broadcast by Imedi TV . The then finance minister Valery Chechelashvili stood before Keserashvili and rejected the evidence as forged.
On November 11, 2006, Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli appointed him Minister of Defense of Georgia. In the 2008 Caucasus conflict , he was responsible for the military operations of the Georgian armed forces . On December 5, 2008, he was replaced as Minister of Defense.
Keserashvili is married and has two children. In addition to Georgian, he speaks English, Russian, Hebrew and Italian. In the early summer of 2006, he suffered a traffic accident on a country road in which he and his wife were seriously injured.
Kezerashvili and the former mayor of Tbilisi, Gigi Ugulawa , were charged with abuse of office. However, he fled to France , which has so far refused to extradite him to Georgia.
Web links
- Civil Georgia: Interview with Dawit Keserashvili ( Memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keserashvili, Dawit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | დავით კეზერაშვილი (Georgian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Georgian SSR , Soviet Union |