Three foreign citizens charged for running illegal gambling business
The offenders had arranged table gambling and broadcasted lotto games on websites of internet casinos operating outside Georgia, adding the operation had caused a loss of about 100,000 ($37,986) to the state budget. Photo: The Investigation Service of the Georgian Finance Ministry.
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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 Service said the individuals had been running gambling facilities in three different locations in the regional capital of Batumi without permit.
It also said the offenders had arranged table gambling and broadcasted lotto games on websites of internet casinos operating outside Georgia, adding the operation had caused a loss of about 100,000 ($37,986) to the state budget.
The crime is punishable by between three and five years in prison.
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 investigation service of Georgia’s finance ministry has charged 10 individuals for illegal entrepreneurial activities, the state body announced on Wednesday.
About one million Georgian citizens will be banned from online gambling and will not be allowed in brick and mortar casinos, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated earlier today.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili says the government has plans to increase fees for online gambling businesses – which are mostly foreign owned – as well as to ban ads, and increase the lower age limit for gamblers to 25 years.
The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia arrested two individuals for fraudulent misappropriation of funds by manufacture and use of forged documents, the Service said on Wednesday.