Owner of lounge bar in Tbilisi detained for defrauding tourists
Scarpa lounge bar is located on Aghmashenebeli Avenue, which is one of the best tourist destinations in Tbilisi. Photo: Scarpa/Facebook
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The Georgian police have detained the owner of Scarpa lounge bar in Tbilisi for defrauding tourists.
The individual, identified only as L. M. and born in 1989, and his employees were extorting more money from their clients.
Photo: Scarpa/Facebook
In particular, they replaced expensive products from their menu with cheap alternatives but made the clients pay even more than the original item by artificially increasing the prices ‘to unreasonably large amounts’.
At the same cafe-bar, a Chinese citizen under the alcohol influence, who was accompanied by a young female (criminally linked with the detainee), lost consciousness. After recovery, he found out that GEL 15,000 had been transferred from his credit card to the account of the cafe-bar in three stages”, the ministry reports.
It also notes that the similar fraud scheme - when the client was forced to pay ‘unreasonably large amount’ of money - was also applied at the Royal Club in Tbilisi.
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The General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has charged two individuals, an owner and an employee of a restaurant located on Aghmashenebeli Avenue in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi, for defrauding tourists. The owner and an employee of the restaurant ordered a large amount of expensive drinks and food without the consent of the clients, which they did not actually deliver to the customers.