Former Georgian president and Ukrainian politician Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested early on Dec. 5 after law enforcers broke into his apartment in Kyiv’s downtown.

Ukraine’s SBU state security service said in a report on its website that its officers, together with representatives of the Prosecutor General’s office, detained Saakashvili in connection with a criminal investigation into his allegedly “helping members of criminal organizations and covering up their criminal activity.”