One detained for taking bribe in exchange for approving grant of 25,000 GEL for eco-migrants
An employee of the agency was taking bribes from eco-migrants in need of resettlement in exchange for approving them a grant of 25,000 GEL which is guaranteed to eco-migrants per the state programme. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Officers of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the State Security Service of Georgia have detained the chief specialist of the Registration Division of the Agency for Refugees, Eco-Migrants and Livelihoods for taking bribes.
The investigation found that an employee of the agency was taking bribes from eco-migrants in need of resettlement in exchange for approving them a grant of 25,000 GEL which is guaranteed to eco-migrants per the state programme.
In March 2021, he/she took 1,500 GEL from an eco-migrant in exchange for a house in Tsalka district, and 2,000 GEL in exchange for a house in Adigeni district in May of the same year", says the State Security Service of Georgia.
The investigation continues.
The Anti-corruption Agency of the State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia has detained two individuals, including an employer of Adjara Forestry Agency, for taking bribes.
Police have detained an employee of Tbilisi City Hall for bribe taking earlier today. The investigation shows that the detained individual promised foreign businessmen to cut down healthy trees in the vicinity of a plot which they were going to buy in the nearest future, as they were going to build a road near the plot.
Prosecutor of Tbilisi’s Didube-Chugureti district has been charged with bribery in exchange for agreeing to issue a plea bargain, says the Prosecution Service of Georgia. The crime is punishable by 11 to 15 years in prison.
Alexander Grashchenkov, a former police chief of the regional police department in Russia’s third-largest city of Novosibirsk, has been convicted for accepting bribes in the form of the popular Georgian dumpling khinkali, authorities and media said Wednesday, writes Russia’s Kommersant.
Police have arrested the former head of the procurement department and a consultant of the Georgian United Water Supply Company for bribetaking, the Georgian Chief Prosecutor's Office announced today.
Four employees of the Tbilisi Transport Company, which manages public transit in the capital city, have been arrested with charges of bribery and attempted fraud.