Giorgi Lortkipanidze, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia under the United National Movement (UNM)government, has been appointed  Deputy Director of Counterintelligence of Ukraine, UNM MP, also former official Khatia Dekanoidze has stated. 

Lortkipanidze is being wanted by Georgian law enforcers for two separate cases one of which concerns the illegal entry of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to Georgia at the end of 2021.

Earlier Lortkipanidze chaired the  Odessa District Police Main Division in Ukraine. He resigned back in 2016.

Later charges against Lortkipanidze were filed in December 2021, shortly after Saakashvili was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1, 2021.

He is also charged with abuse of authority for the dispersal of an opposition rally in Tbilisi back in May 2011.