Four detained for fraud, attempt to rig state tender
The individuals were detained when they took a payment for their promise to help rig a state tender.
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The Georgian State Security Service has detained four individuals for fraud, who promised the head of a company to help him have sanctions against his enterprise removed and to win state tenders.
The head of the company would have paid 2,700,000 [$998,000] GEL for this,” SSS says.
The agency says that the individuals were detained when they took 10,000 USD from the company chair.
One of the four detainees face additional charges as he took 350,000 [$129,384] GEL from the same man during the 2018 presidential elections.
He told the company chair that a portion of the money would be used for funding the election campaign and the remaining portion would be handed to one of the officials of the State Security Service,” SSS reports.
The crime is punishable by six to nine years imprisonment.
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