(1980-10-24) October 24, 1980 (age 43) Zugdidi, Georgian SSR, USSR
Spouse
Anna Nadareishvili
Bachana "Bacho" Akhalaia (Georgian: ბაჩანა "ბაჩო" ახალაია; born October 24, 1980, in Zugdidi) is a Georgian politician who was Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia from July 4, 2012, to September 20, 2012. He had previously served as Head of Penitentiary Department of Ministry of Justice of Georgia (2005–2008) and Minister of Defense (August 27, 2009 – July 4, 2012).
On September 20, 2012, amid protests against torture and rapes in Georgian prisons, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Akhalaia had resigned from office.[citation needed]
Bachana "Bacho" Akhalaia (Georgian: ბაჩანა "ბაჩო" ახალაია; born October 24, 1980, in Zugdidi) is a Georgian politician who was Minister of Internal Affairs...
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Mikheil Saakashvili in May 2006. After Merabishvili's successor, Bachana Akhalaia, resigned in response to an inmate abuse scandal in Tbilisi's Gldani prison...
of Kakheti Zurab Tchiaberashvili and Head of Penitentiary Department BachoAkhalaia were among the ones who were arrested. Bringing former government officials...
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Minister BachoAkhalaia who was the mastermind behind a supposed idea to create a force of Chechen fighters and infiltrate them into Russia. Akhalaia, who...
in Tbilisi, two deputies and prison guards. The interior minister, BachoAkhalaia, resigned, as well as the Corrections and Legal Assistance Minister...
military after the war. On August 27, 2009, he was replaced with deputy BachoAkhalaia, a close ally of President Mikheil Saakashvili and influential Interior...
His lawyer and CEOs informed him that BachoAkhalaia had been telling them to bring him back. They told Akhalaia that they had already settled this, with...
Georgia. It was opened in Kutaisi in 2010 by order of Defence Minister BachoAkhalaia. It is the country's higher secondary military educational institution...
with partners from 2009 until 2013, serving under successive ministers BachoAkhalaia (2009–2012), Dimitri Shashkini (2012) and Irakli Alasania (2012–2013)...
Chachibaia, who allegedly left the post to protest Deputy Defense Minister BachoAkhalaia's interference in the armed forces' work. As the new commander-in-chief...
court refuses to extradite Data Akhalaia to Georgia". Georgian Journal. 2014-10-16. Retrieved 2022-12-26. "BachoAkhalaia Arrested". Civil Georgia. 2014-11-07...
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