13 detained for membership of ‘the criminal world’, kidnapping and extorting a businessman
The crime is punishable by three to 10 years in prison. Photo: Screenshot from a video of MIA.
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The Georgian Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office have detained 13 individuals in a joint operation for their membership in the criminal underworld, appealing to criminal bosses and illegal deprivation of liberty.
The Interior Ministry says that members of the criminal underworld kidnapped a Georgian businessman, and held him hostage in a rented apartment in March 2020.
The offenders called a Georgian “thief-in-law” abroad and forced him to pay $7,500 (about €6,836) in exchange for the release of the businessman. He was also forced to pay $50,000 (about €45,578) over the course of two months.
The Interior Ministry also reports that three detainees, only identified as T.O., L.Sh., and G.D. were involved in disputes regarding the sale of vehicles. With the support of other ‘thieves-in-law’ they extorted individuals and later they used the money to support several activities of the criminal underworld.
Law enforcers seized three expensive cars and cash ($16,000/€13,052), computers and mobile phones, through which the detainees had contact with each other and Georgian ‘thieves-in-low’.
The crime is punishable by three to 10 years in prison.
Georgian Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office have detained four Georgia citizens in a joint operation for membership in the criminal underworld and appealing to criminal bosses to settle disputes.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained five who were involved in a so-called ‘meeting of criminal bosses’.
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.
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.
Georgian law enforcers have detained eight individuals for membership in ‘the criminal underworld’, while two Georgian ‘’thieves-in-law’ living abroad have been charged in absentia, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Two Georgian citizens, with a previous criminal history, have been detained by Georgian police for membership in the criminal underworld and illegal possession of weapons and drugs.
Police have detained four individuals for kidnapping and financial extortion, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The MIA reports that the detained individuals, identified only as B.P., Z.A., Z.B., and I.D., abducted Tajik citizens who were involved in business activities in Georgia and physically injured them with the purpose of extorting money out of them.
The two individuals, identified as D.Kh. born in 1974 and N.B. born in 1997, who acted on behalf of ‘thief-in-law’ Boria Apakidze, had demanded from a businessman in Tetritskaro municipality to pay them $10,000.
Three individuals have been detained for membership in the criminal underworld in Georgia and participation in criminal gatherings.
Police have detained 11 individuals for ‘membership in the criminal underworld’ in two cities Gori and Khashuri from Georgia’s Shida Kartli region earlier today. The Georgian Interior Ministry has not made a statement regarding the incident yet. The Georgian Interior Ministry reported that detainees ‘were regularly participating in criminal disputes with the instruction of so-called ‘thieves-in-law’ and were extorting cash and expensive cars from citizens.’
Police have detained three individuals for ‘membership in criminal underworld’ and supporting thieves-in-law (criminal authorities) in Tbilisi and Black Sea town of Batumi today.