One detained for cyber crimes in Tbilisi

The crime is punishable from four to seven years in prison. Photo: cybered.io

Agenda.ge, 07 Jun 2020 - 18:37, Tbilisi,Georgia

Police have detained a Georgian citizen for cyber crimes in Tbilisi, Interior Ministry reported yesterday.

The ministry said the individual, identified only as A.B. and born in 2000, fraudulently accessed the Facebook accounts of 25 people between December 2019 and May 2020.

The individual not only used the names of those 25 persons to write to their friends, asking to transfer money to his bank account, but also deceived them into giving him their bank account information and transferred their money on his account.

The crime is punishable from four to seven years in prison.