Prosecutor's Office charges bank robber Esebua with additional crime
The state body said law enforcement officers had seized a Makarov-type pistol, ammunition, as well as a passport of Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia and Russian Rubles during the special operation. Photo via IPN
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The Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia has brought one more criminal charge against the bank robber Badri Esebua for the purchase and storage of firearms and ammunition in addition to the charges pressed against him on Monday for coercion, illegal purchase, possession and carrying of firearms and ammunition, organisation of a terrorist act and hostage-taking, the Office announced on Thursday.
The state body said law enforcement officers had seized a Makarov-type pistol, ammunition, as well as a passport of Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia and Russian Rubles during the special operation.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of Esebua, who was wanted since October 2020 for a robbery of a Bank of Georgia branch in the country’s western Samegrelo region, during which he took hostages and reportedly escaped with half a million dollars.
The crimes are punishable by up to ten to 15 years of imprisonment.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Wednesday responded to the arrest of a bank robber who had been wanted for two years by saying the detention was a “warning signal to all criminal romantics succumbed to temptation”.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a man who was wanted since October 2020 for a robbery of a Bank of Georgia branch in the country’s western Samegrelo region, during which he took hostages and reportedly escaped with half a million dollars.
Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri has stated that he has reliable information that Badri Esebua, the Zugdidi bank robber who took hostages, escaped with half a million USD and has been hiding for eight months, is still in Georgia.
Brother of Badri Esebua, the Zugdidi bank robber who took hostages and escaped with half a million USD, was detained yesterday for the illegal purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs on Monday launched an investigation after emergency services received a report on an explosion off the coast of Georgia’s Black Sea city of Batumi.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs on Tuesday announced the launch of regular patrols and inspections along the country’s Black Sea coastline following Monday’s explosion off the coast of Batumi.
Georgian police have arrested 13 individuals in Tbilisi and other regions of the country on charges of illegal purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition, the Georgian Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
Georgian police officers have arrested five individuals who have been charged with illegal deprivation of liberty and robbery of sheep in the eastern Kakheti region, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.