3 detained for ‘membership in criminal underworld’, supporting ‘criminal authorities’
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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.
Police found that the detainee, identified only as D.K., attempted to obtain personal and material benefits for criminal authorities.
Aiming to extort money, with the help of two individuals, identified only as I.K. and R.M., D.K. contacted a businessman in Batumi and demanded several thousand dollars. The businessman was threatened with loss of life and destruction of property if he refused to pay money.
Law enforcers seized computer equipment and mobile phones of the detainees during a search.
The crime is punishable by three to 10 years in prison.
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.’
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 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.
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 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.
Police arrested six individuals in Tbilisi earlier on Thursday with charges of illegal deprivation of liberty, financial extortion, unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition, and failure to report a crime.
Police have arrested nine individuals on charges of “membership in the criminal underworld” and using criminal authorities to settle a financial dispute, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Thursday.
Police have arrested seven individuals for their connections with and membership in “criminal underworld” in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi, the city of Rustavi and the Black Sea region of Adjara, with two charged in absentia, the Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday.
Police have arrested five individuals for connections with and membership in “criminal underworld”, the Georgian interior ministry said on Thursday.