Former President Georgia Saakashvili in the Netherlands after expulsion from Ukraine

Former President Georgia Saakashvili is in the Netherlands.

On Monday evening, Saakashvili was sent back to Poland, where he was welcome because Roelofs is an EU citizen. Earlier in the day the Saakashvili politically active in Ukraine was arrested in Kiev. According to his staff he was kidnapped.

On Sunday, the former president on the Georgian TV channel Rustawi-2 said that preparations for his deportation to Poland were being made. Saakashvili also threatened to be extradited to his native Georgia. There he was recently sentenced in absentia to three years' imprisonment for abuse of power.

After his political career in the Caucasus, Saakashvili was taken to Ukraine in May 2015 by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. But the Georgian later turned out to be a fierce critic of Poroshenko.

Prosecutors in Ukraine accused Saakashvili, among other things, of organizing protests with financial aid from former President Viktor Yanukovich, who was deported in 2014 and fled to Russia. Kiev took out its Ukrainian citizenship in July last year. The fifty-year-old Saakashvili is as far as known stateless.