Police arrest 4 on charges of trafficking minors
It added the offenders had also verbally and physically assaulted the minors in case of disobedience. Photo: Interion Ministry
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Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Sunday said its professionals, together with the General Prosecutor's Office, detained four individuals on charges of trafficking minors.
As the investigation established, the minors had been under psychological pressure and systematically exploited for labour by the offenders, who forced them to sell flowers or beg alms and obtained the received money from the minors, the state body said.
It added the offenders had also verbally and physically assaulted the minors in case of disobedience.
The crime is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 14 to 17 years.
The Georgian Interior Ministry, on May 1, launched an investigation into alleged lewd acts against minors in the country’s western town of Vani, the Ministry announced on Sunday.
Georgian police officers have arrested an individual for threats made to a minor in capital Tbilisi on Wednesday, the interior ministry announced on Thursday.
Police have arrested an individual for verbal and physical abuse of his wife and a minor family member, as well as for property damage, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia said on Thursday.
Georgian police have detained one individual, 46, in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi for trafficking of minors, announces the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on Wednesday sent its condolences to families of two officers of its Patrol Police Department who were killed in a traffic accident in the central-eastern Shida Kartli region on Tuesday.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Sunday said its professionals had arrested a foreign citizen on charges of human trafficking in Georgia’s western Zestaponi municipality.
The Georgian Government has maintained the “highest level” of performance in combating human trafficking, the United States Department of State has said in its annual 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report, published on Thursday.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday said law enforcements had detained an individual on charges of trafficking minors.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Saturday said its professionals had arrested four individuals, including Georgian and foreign citizens, on charges of human trafficking.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Sunday said its professionals had arrested one individual on charges of human trafficking.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Friday said its professionals had revealed a minor trafficking scheme and arrested two individuals and brought charges against one more person already in custody at that moment.