Georgia’s special investigation service on Thursday arrested five individuals for the violation of secrecy of private life and unlawfully obtaining personal correspondence, the service said.
As a result of investigative and procedural actions conducted, the service established that the offenders had kept nude pictures, videos, intimate and personal correspondence of victims, whom they had been in a relationship with at different times, and had placed the mentioned materials on social networks, while also sending them to relatives and friends of the victims to blackmail them.
The state body said that based on the obtained evidence, the offenders were charged with the disclosure of personal or family secrets, information on private life or of personal data, and violation of secrecy of personal correspondence, phone conversations or other kinds of communication.
The crimes are punishable by imprisonment for a term of two to five years.