State Security Service arrests one for commercial bribery
The State Security Service on Thursday said its professionals had charged one individual for commercial bribery. Photo: State Security Service
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The State Security Service on Thursday said its professionals had charged one individual for commercial bribery.
The body said its investigation found the Director of the No.1 Polyclinic in the city of Rustavi, located south-east of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, and a doctor at the same clinic had created a false health certificate for a citizen of Egypt.
The document claimed the individual had “various non-existent illnesses”, the Service said, to prevent the individual from being deported from the country after the expiration of their residence permit, in exchange for $2,000.
It also added the investigation was being carried out by the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Service, with the crime punishable by imprisonment between four and six years.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Thursday said one individual had been arrested on charges of facilitating “unpermitted access to computer systems” of Georgian telecommunications provider Silknet and acquisition of personal data of citizens.
The State Security Service of Georgia on Friday said its professionals had charged two individuals and arrested the former Deputy Head of the hospitalisation shift of the Emergency Response Coordination and Urgent Assistance Centre under the Health Ministry, as well as two former managers of the Centre, for bribery.
Officers of Georgia’s Anti-Corruption Agency on Monday detained employees of the City Hall of the western municipality of Tsalenjikha and charged them with bribery.
Officers of Georgia’s Anti-Corruption Agency on Tuesday detained an employee of the Municipal Inspection Service of the Batumi City Hall in the country’s western city, with the official charged with bribery.