Police detain three for group extortion in Imereti region
Law enforcement officers arrested the three perpetrators at their homes in the region, with the crime punishable by up to seven years of imprisonment. Photo: Interior Ministry
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The Georgian Interior Ministry on Thursday said its law enforcement officers had detained three “criminal authorities” for group extortion of money in the country’s western Imereti region.
Two of the individuals were related to two different “criminal underworld” figures, the body said, adding the arrested persons had criminal history.
The Ministry said its investigation had established the group had demanded $1,000 from an individual due to a “prior disagreement” and threatened the victim with physical harm and death.
Law enforcement officers arrested the three perpetrators at their homes in the region, with the crime punishable by up to seven years of imprisonment.
Four individuals have been arrested for group extortion of large amounts of money, group violence, illegal possession of drugs and failure to report crime, Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Wednesday.
The Investigation Service of Georgia’s Finance Ministry has charged four individuals for purchase and sale of illegally acquired property, production and use of forged tax documents and money laundering, the state body announced on Tuesday.
The Investigation Service of Georgia’s Finance Ministry on Friday charged eight individuals, including a former official, with fraudulent appropriation of state-owned plots of land.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Thursday said it had arrested 13 individuals for connections with “criminal underworld” and use of criminal authorities for settling financial disputes.
The Border Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia on Saturday arrested two individuals for an attempt of illegal crossing of the state border through the Kartsakhi customs checkpoint in the south of the country.
The General Inspection of the Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday said it had arrested two individuals for fraudulent misappropriation of money from citizens through misrepresenting themselves as officials of the body.
Police have arrested five individuals for connections with the “criminal underworld” in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi and the western Imereti region, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.