4 Georgian criminal bosses and 34 others detained in France and Greece
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Four Georgian criminal bosses and 34 Georgian members of criminal groups were detained in France and Greece on April 16-17 through cooperation with the Georgian Interior Ministry.
The operation named Caucase Normandie was held simultaneously in French and Greek cities to detain the suspects accused of hundreds of robberies, the possession and sale of robbed items and money laundering.
The four criminal bosses detained are Lasha Shushanashvili , Aleksandre Kobaladze, Nodar Shukakidze and Merab Asanidze. Shukakidze and Kobaladze were detained in France, while Asanidze and Shukakidze were detained in Greece.
Georgia, France and Greece have been cooperating to detain the suspects for two years,” the Georgian Interior Ministry stated.
The ministry said that Georgia has "very effective” communication with European countries to combat organised and transnational crime.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has stated they are involved in a large-scale anti-mafia operation in Madrid, Catalonia and several other locations in Spain.
Fifteen Georgians are among the 33 members of a Russian gang who were charged for alleged racketeering, fraud, narcotics, firearms, and stolen property offenses in the United States on Wednesday.
Georgian law enforcers have detained a man wanted by Interpol since January 2017. Identified as E.Ch., the man was charged in Germany for keeping and selling of drugs.
Georgia’s law enforcers have detained a man who has been searched by Interpol since 2006.
Amendments to a law on combating organised crime and racketeering come in the wake of the recent arrest of four Georgian criminal bosses and 34 Georgian members of criminal groups in France and Greece.
The arrests come in the wake of the capture of four Georgian criminal bosses and 34 Georgian members of criminal groups in France and Greece on April 16-17 through cooperation with the Georgian Interior Ministry.
The Georgian Interior Ministry and Greek police have detained 17 members of a criminal group as the result of a joint investigation today in Athens.
Four Georgian criminal bosses and 34 Georgian members of criminal groups were detained in France and Greece on April 16-17 through cooperation with the Georgian Interior Ministry.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has arrested six individuals on charges of ‘belonging to the criminal underworld’ in Zestaponi and Tbilisi.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced today that 129 members of an Armenian-Georgian criminal group were detained with the active involvement of Georgia, Europol and Interpol.
The Georgian and French interior ministers signed an agreement in Paris today to create a joint working group against the transnational organised crime.
The Italian police has arrested members of a Georgian criminal gang that robbed the house of the parents of Italy‘s Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, as the group travelled across Europe performing burglaries.
The Spanish police has arrested Georgian criminal Gocha Maisuradze following house robberies in Barcelona that included breaking into the home of pop singer Shakira and football player Gerard Pique.
The European Union will launch a project that will help the Interior Ministry upgrade its capabilities against organised crime, develop its analytical capabilities, refine legislation and community-oriented policing and enhance international contacts.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained five who were involved in a so-called ‘meeting of criminal bosses’.
The two leaders emphasised the existing potential in terms of intensified trade and economic cooperation.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained an Azerbaijani citizen who has been wanted by Interpol since February 2019 for fraud.
Georgia has become the first country in the South Caucasus which signed an agreement with the EU agency Eurojust, created in 2002 to help EU member and several non-member countries cooperate more effectively to combat terrorism and serious crimes, the Georgian Justice Ministry reports.
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner says that the number of Georgian asylum seekers in France has dropped by 50 per cent in the second half of the year, while Georgia took the first position on the list of asylum seekers in the first several months of 2019.
One Georgian citizen has died in Athens while robbing a flat, the Georgian Foreign Ministry has confirmed.
The Greek police have detained a group of nine Georgian citizens, including one woman, for the creation of ‘criminal groups’ and house robberies in Athens.