Man sentenced to 6 years for promising visas, jobs abroad, stealing 12,800 GEL
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A person who received 12,800 GEL ($4,011/€3,679) through the fraud of 11 people has been sentenced to six years in prison.
An individual identified only as O.G., with the help of one accomplice promised 11 people to help them get working visas to the USA and Australia and help them find a job after arriving.
They told the injured parties that O.G., who introduced himself as Giorgi, worked in the State Security Service of Georgia and assured them that he could personally resolve travel issues abroad.
O.G. was charged with fraud on January 29, 2020.
5,334 crimes were registered in Georgia in January 2020, which is 400 cases fewer compared to the same period of the last year. 1,314 of the cases have been resolved, the Georgian Interior Ministry told IPN news agency.
The number of crimes registered between January and March of 2020 has decreased by more than 10 per per cent compared to the same period of the last year.
Funds for twenty-seven projects planned by the government worth more than 400 million GEL ($135 mln/€122.4 mln) have still not been used, say data available from the first half of the year, the State Audit Office’s Budget Monitor reports.
Four people have been accused of fraud, including the misappropriation of state property, negligence and falsification of documents by the Investigative Service of Georgian Finance Ministry.
A man was shot in his car in Gldani district of Tbilisi earlier today. Police say it was a premeditated murder and the offender, allegedly, was in illegal possession of firearms.