Finance ministry investigation service charges 10 for illegal entrepreneurship
Police officers seized foreign currency equivalent to ₾550,000 (about $198,169) during the search of the offenders, the state body also said. Photo: video grab.
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The investigation service of Georgia’s finance ministry has charged 10 individuals for illegal entrepreneurial activities, the state body announced on Wednesday.
In its statement the state body said its investigation had found the convicts had operated currency exchange points in various locations in the western Adjara region without relevant permits of the national bank of Georgia.
Police officers seized foreign currency equivalent to ₾550,000 (about $198,169) during the search of the offenders, the state body also said.
The crime is punishable by up to three years in prison.
The investigation service of Georgia’s finance ministry has charged an individual for manufacture and use of forged tax documents and evasion of “particularly large amounts” of tax, the state body said on Tuesday.
The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia has arrested two individuals and charged them with property damage and manufacture and use of forged customs documents, the state authority said on Wednesday.
Police have detained three individuals for abuse of power, illegal entrepreneurship and money laundering in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region.
The Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has detained seven citizens of Iran for illegal entrepreneurship in Georgia, receiving more than 2 million GEL as an unlawful income in one year.
The national bank of Georgia on Friday warned businesses against potential unauthorised currency exchange transactions after individuals were charged for running unregistered exchange booths in the western region of Adjara earlier during the week.
Georgia’s progress in combating money laundering and terrorist financing has been recognised in a new report released on Monday by the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering body, MONEYVAL.
The investigation service of the ministry of finance of Georgia has charged two individuals with running an illegal gambling business in the Black Sea region of Adjara, the state body said on Thursday.
The Counterintelligence Department of the State Security Service of Georgia arrested three individuals for making and selling forged documents, the Service said on Saturday.
The Investigative Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia has arrested two individuals for the sale of expired dairy products, with up to six tonnes of the product seized, the Ministry said on Tuesday.
The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia has charged three foreign citizens with running an illegal gambling business in the Black Sea region of Adjara, the state body said on Monday.
The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia has charged an individual with fraudulent appropriation of a “large amount of money” from a joint stock company, the state body said on Tuesday.