4 detained for connections with criminal underworld
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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 Interior Ministry says that one of the detainees contacted three other detainees to help him settle a financial dispute with the involvement [via phone] of a so-called, Georgian criminal boss T.Tch, living abroad.
The ministry says that the criminal boss ‘settled the issue’ in favour of the detainee and demanded the individual with whom the detainee had the financial dispute to pay 4,500 GEL and 6,300 USD.
The detainees exercised pressure on the individual and made him pay 4,500 GEL and 1,800 USD,” the ministry said.
The detainees face three to 10 years in prison as Georgia toughened the punishment for such crimes back in 2018 to combat thieves-in-law more effectively.
Three individuals have been charged with ‘membership in the criminal underworld’, ‘requesting help from the crime bosses’ and illegal purchase and storage of firearms, announced the Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office today.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained three individuals for ‘membership in the criminal underworld’ and ‘requesting help from criminal bosses to settle a dispute’.
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 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.
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 have detained three individuals for membership in the ‘criminal underworld’ and financial extortion today.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained 13 individuals for ‘membership in the criminal underworld’ and requesting the mediation of ‘criminal bosses’ to settle a dispute.
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.
The Georgian Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office have arrested nine individuals in a joint operation for their membership in the ‘criminal underworld’ and extorting taxi drivers.
Police have arrested four individuals for ‘membership in the criminal underworld’ and extortion in Borjomi, Rustavi and the Imereti region.