He is currently the head of the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General's Office. Among its functions is the issue of extradition. That is, in essence, Adeishvili refused Georgia to extract himself, which, theoretically, may indicate a conflict of interests in his current position.
At the same time, Adeishvili's reluctance to return to the Motherland is quite understandable.
From 2003 to 2012, he held high positions in the then-president Saakashvili's team - twice he was the Minister of Justice, the Prosecutor General and the head of the presidential administration.
But after Saakashvili's party lost in the 2012 parliamentary elections, Adeishvili left Georgia. A number of criminal cases were opened against him in his homeland, according to which the ex-minister was found guilty by local courts.
The loudest of the cases concerned the torture of prisoners in the prisons of Adeishvili, as the Minister of Justice.
In 2012, a few days before parliamentary elections in Georgia, footage of torture and abuse of prisoners in Georgian prisons was published. The opposition (Ivanishvili's "Georgian Dream" party) accused the authorities of creating a system of torture in prisons. The authorities denied this and accused the opposition of provocation. But the video caused great indignation in Georgia and Saakashvili's party lost the elections, and his team then lost real power in the country.
Later, the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia claimed that both the torture and their filming were carried out on the order of Adeishvili.
"At the beginning of September, the Minister of Justice of Georgia, Zurab Adeishvili, became aware that Volodymyr Bedukadze, an employee of the Department of Corrections, took footage of inhumane treatment of prisoners abroad to show them to European human rights organizations and mass media. Adeishvili, together with the director of Hldan Prison No. 8, developed a scheme according to which prison employees - Levan Phaladze, David Parulava, known by the nicknames "Basti" and "Bubu", were to beat prisoners and record it on camera , and after that another employee - Levan Purtskhvanidze stated that he filmed torture and beatings on behalf of "Georgian Dream" and allegedly received 40,000 dollars for it," the prosecutor's office said.
Adeishvili was also found guilty of the illegal expropriation of a winery, the seizure of the "Imedi" and "Iberia" television companies, the kidnapping and brutal violence against MP Koba Davitashvili, the bankruptcy of the "Kartu" bank, and the killing of 19-year-old Buta Robakidze by the police.
Adeishvili denies his guilt.
In 2013, Georgia declared Adeishvili internationally wanted, and he was on the "red" list of Interpol for two years. But in 2015, Interpol stopped looking for the ex-minister.
It should be noted that at the beginning of 2015, Adeishvili just became an adviser to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In May of the same year, his associate Mykhailo Saakashvili became the governor of Odesa.
