45 Georgian citizens arrested abroad for robbery, money laundering
The Georgian Interior Ministry says that the Georgian citizens were detained yesterday mostly in Italy and France. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Forty-five Georgian citizens have been detained abroad with the help of the Georgian police, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported earlier today.
The detainees have been charged with robbery, money laundering, membership in a criminal group, smuggling of tobacco and the sale of stolen items.
Twenty-three of the Georgian citizens were detained in Italy, 17 in France, two in Poland, one in Greece, one in Belgium and one in Slovenia.
The detainees face seven to 10 years in prison if convicted.
The detained Georgian citizens were robbing flats in Northern Italy and were trying to set up a legal business with the money received from the sale of the robbed items,” the Georgian Interior Ministry stated.
The ministry says that the Georgian citizens who were detained in France were members of a criminal group.
A Georgian citizen has been arrested for aggravated assault at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, after being prohibited from boarding a transit flight due to the fact he had a positive coronavirus test result, says the Royal Police Department.
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.
The Greek police have detained a group of nine Georgian citizens, including one woman, for the creation of ‘criminal groups’ and house robberies in Athens.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has detained five who were involved in a so-called ‘meeting of criminal bosses’.
Police have detained an individual for theft in the eastern Georgian town of Marneuli. The individual, identified as I.J. and born in 1993, is currently on probation for theft. The crime is punishable by four to seven years in prison.
Georgian law enforcers of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have detained 11 individuals for helping embezzle €620,000 belonging to German, Austrian, Chinese, Dutch and Norwegian citizens.
Two Israeli citizens have been charged in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme in which they misappropriated a total of €159,905 from French citizens, announces the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia.
The investigation found that an Iranian citizen had created an organised criminal group the purpose of which was to import a large amount of foreign currency from abroad through the customs border of Georgia, bypassing the established procedures, and to launder it by placing on the bank accounts of fictitious enterprises.
The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia has detained a former manager of a large commercial bank branch in Batumi for the misappropriation of large amounts of money and using forged documents.
Police have detained three Georgian citizens for the misappropriation of a large amount of money by fraud belonging to a Swedish citizen.
Four Georgian citizens have robbed a businessman’s house in Duhok, Kurdustan region in Iraq stealing over USD 2.5 million and four kilograms of gold, foreign media reports.
A total of eight Georgian citizens have been arrested in the city of Barcelona for robbing apartments and membership in a criminal gang.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia on Wednesday said it had arrested an Iranian citizen for laundering “especially large amounts” of money between the years 2017-2020.