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Jailed Georgian actor charged with organised drug trafficking

Giorgi ‘Bakhala’ Giorganashvili, a Georgian actor sentenced to eight years in prison in January on drug charges, has now been charged with organised drug trafficking. The Interior Ministry claims Giorganashvili was involved in a plot to smuggle drugs from Turkey to Georgia in an ambulance; if convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison, or life imprisonment. Tbilisi City Court sentenced Giorganashvili to eight years in prison on 23 January for possession of buprenorphine, an opioid used to