Vakhtang Gomelauri

Vakhtang Gomelauri
ვახტანგ გომელაური
Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia
In office
December 20, 2024 – May 28, 2025
Serving with Irakli Chikovani
Prime MinisterIrakli Kobakhidze
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office
September 8, 2019 – May 28, 2025
Prime MinisterGiorgi Gakharia
Maya Tskitishvili (acting)
Irakli Garibashvili
Irakli Kobakhidze
Preceded byGiorgi Gakharia
Succeeded byGela Geladze
In office
January 26, 2015 – August 3, 2015
Preceded byAlexsandre Chikaidze
Succeeded byGiorgi Mghebrishvili
Head of the State Security Service of Georgia
In office
July 25, 2015 – September 8, 2019
Prime MinisterIrakli Garibashvili
Giorgi Kvirikashvili
Mamuka Bakhtadze
Preceded byposition reestablished
Succeeded byGrigol Liluashvili
Personal details
Born (1974-12-24) 24 December 1974
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
PartyGeorgian Dream
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Vakhtang Gomelauri (Georgian: ვახტანგ გომელაური, born 24 December 1974) is a Georgian politician, who served as the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia[1] and as the 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

  1. ^ "Georgian PM, President pay tribute to soldiers fallen in Shindisi battle". Agenda.ge. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  2. ^ "Interior Minister Appointed as National Security Council Secretary". Civil.ge. 2020-02-19. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  3. ^ Britain, US sanction Georgian officials over crackdown on pro-EU protesters, Reuters: December 19, 2024
  4. ^ Baltic countries sanction Georgian officials after violence against protestors, Politico: December 2, 2024


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