Polish doctor who attempted to smuggle Saakashvili bio sample either bribed, or fool – opposition MP

Iago Khvichia, an opposition MP, on Thursday claimed one of Polish professionals, who on July 12 reportedly attempted to smuggle currently imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s biological sample through his shoe despite having had an official permit to take it out from the Tbilisi clinic, had been either “bribed” by the Georgian government to “discredit” the process, or “is fool”. 

 

“I think the Polish doctor, who had  performed this trick at a completely unnecessary time and place, had done it with a previous agreement with the Georgian Dream government, or he is so foolish that he should not be admitted to a patient”, he said. 

 

The Polish foreign office on Wednesday said the incident had been “unintentional” and “clarified at the spot”, slamming the Special Penitentiary Service for releasing the footage on July 14, which Warsaw claimed had contracted the practice of “good cooperation”. 

 

Tbilisi called the doctor’s action “contradictory to both legal and ethical norms”, and demanded explanations to readmit the group composed of five professionals to the Vivamedi civilian clinic in Tbilisi to examine the convicted former president.