Police detain 8 individuals for membership in ‘the criminal underworld,’ 2 Georgian ‘thieves-in-law’ charged in absentia
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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.
Police say that in February and March of 2020, several of the detainees got involved in a dispute regarding the indebtedness of one party to a conflict.
They contacted Georgian ‘thieves-in-law’, Tamaz Kartsivadze (nicknamed Kusa), and Jeiran Kintsurashvili (nicknamed Jeirana) in order to solve the disagreement. With the support of the mentioned “thieves-in-law”, the issue was solved in an apartment owned by one of the offenders I.A., as a result of which one opposing individual was obliged to pay €8,800 (about $9,931).
The Ministry of Internal Affairs reports that some of the detainees were convicted in the past.
Two Georgian ‘thieves in law’ living abroad, Jeiran Kintsurashvili and Tamaz Kartsivadze, have been charged in absentia and soon they will be declared as wanted persons by Europol.
The law enforcers seized one computer and mobile phones owned by the detainees, used for communicating with each other and Georgian “thieves-in-law” abroad.
The crime is punishable from three to 15 years of imprisonment.
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 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 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.
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.
Forty-five Georgian citizens have been detained abroad with the help of the Georgian police, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported earlier today.