Eurojust and Georgia signed a Cooperation Agreement in March 2019, with the first Liaison Prosecutor Giorgi Gorgadze taking up his duties in June 2020.
In 2023, the Georgian Liaison Prosecutor was involved in 45 new cases, 4 coordination meetings, and 3 joint investigation teams.
Giorgi Gogadze took up his duties as Liaison Prosecutor for Georgia at Eurojust in June 2020. Previously, Mr Gogadze worked as Deputy Prosecutor General of Georgia in Tbilisi and, between 2013 and 2018, as Deputy Chief Prosecutor. In this capacity, he was responsible for international judicial cooperation. Mr Gogadze studied law and economics, specialising in finance and banking, in his home country until 2003 and later obtained a business management degree in the United Kingdom at the University Tutorial College in 2008. In 2003, he started his career working for the Service for Coordination with Local Government Bodies and later the Ministry for Agriculture, where he was Head of Unit for European Integration. In 2013, he became Head of the Administration Department of the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, before joining the Prosecution Services later that year.
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New cases (total) | 16 | 23 | 23 | 45 | 70 |
Coordination meetings (initiating and/or participating) | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 10 |
Coordination centres (organising and/or participating) | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Joint investigation teams (newly signed and/or ongoing) | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
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