Nine arrested for membership in ‘criminal underworld’, extorting taxi drivers
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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.
The Interior Ministry says that the thieves-in-law (criminal authorities) forced taxi drivers to pay money to support activities of the criminal underworld. In exchange the taxi drivers working in the Tbilisi International Airport area would be allowed to work without any limits on the territory.
Criminal authorities, identified only as G.L., G.G., and B.ZH. systematically controlled that only those taxi drivers were allowed to work on the Airport territory who paid money to support the ‘criminal underworld’.
Police officers seized computers and mobile phones, through which the arrested individuals had contact with each other and Georgian ‘thieves-in-law’.
The crime is punishable by three to 10 years in prison.
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.
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.
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.
Police have detained three individuals for membership in the ‘criminal underworld’ and financial extortion today.
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 for using criminal authorities to settle a financial dispute, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Tuesday.
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.
Law enforcers of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Saturday arrested eight individuals in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi and the country’s western cities of Chiatura and Sachkere on charges of “membership in the criminal underworld” and “use of criminal authorities to gain material benefit or material advantage”, the Ministry said.
Police have arrested four individuals and charged two in absentia for connections with and membership in “criminal underworld” and for using criminal authorities to settle financial disputes, the Georgian interior ministry said on Thursday.
Police have arrested five individuals for connections with and membership in “criminal underworld” and for using criminal authorities to settle financial disputes in Tbilisi and the western region of Samegrelo, the Georgian interior ministry said on Monday.
The prosecutor general’s office of Georgia has charged five individuals for connections with and membership in “criminal underworld” and for using criminal authorities to settle financial disputes in Tbilisi and the western region of Samegrelo, the state body said on Thursday.
Police have arrested five individuals for connections with and membership in “criminal underworld”, the Georgian interior ministry said on Thursday.