Teimuraz Janashia was awarded the Medal for Cavalry in 2007, the Honored SSPS Employee Badge in 2007, and the Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali, I Rank in 2013.
He would be dismissed following the victory of Georgian Dream in the 2012 parliamentary election by Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili,[2] after which he briefly served as a presidential adviser in the last months of the Saakashvili presidency.
In 2014,[3] the Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into controversial expenditures done on behalf of President Saakashvili by the SSPS from September 2009 to February 2013, amounting to up to 9 million GEL.
[9] The latter has been serving a controversial six-year prison sentence since October 2021 over the case, while Janashia saw his bank accounts and private properties seized in 2014.
[12] Janashia has maintained his innocence in the case and called the prosecution "absurd", as most of the expenditures cited by the State were arguably used for presidential or diplomatic expenses.
[14] Legal experts have discussed the political overtones of the case, as prosecutors have refused the defense's request to call Anzor Chubinidze, current head of the SSPS and a high-ranking official in the agency in 2009-2013, as a witness.