After reportedly suffering a heart attack, David Mirtskhulava was taken on 24 December to a hospital from the Prosecutor-General\'s Office, to which he had been summoned for questioning about the embezzlement of some $2.2 million intended to pay for electricity supplied to Georgia by Armenia. Georgian presidential candidate Mikhail Saakashvili said Mirtskhulava was arrested because he planned to flee to Russia via Abkhazia. Saakashvili added that \"someone should be held responsible\" for the population having been left to suffer without light or heating. Mirtskhulava\'s lawyer Eka Beselia said her client is the victim of political persecution. (ITAR-TASS)