Prosecutor’s Office investigating transnational call centre fraud at several locations in Tbilisi
The state body noted it “intensively” continued to fight against the transnational crime together with law enforcement agencies of European partner countries, in order to expose involved individuals and organisers of the crimes. Photo via Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia
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The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia on Thursday said it was carrying out investigative and procedural actions at several locations in the capital city of Tbilisi as part of the international investigation against transnational crime involving fraudulent call centre services.
The state body noted it “intensively” continued to fight against the transnational crime together with law enforcement agencies of European partner countries, in order to expose involved individuals and organisers of the crimes.
The Prosecutor’s Office has carried out several investigative activities, including “large-scale operations” in dozens of locations on the territory of Georgia in October 2021 and November 2022, seizing hundreds of electronic information carriers, documents and a “large amount” of money after the searches of the residential houses and workplaces of individuals involved in the crime.
The Office also took special measures against fraudulent online platforms and persons involved in alleged crimes, as a result of which a criminal group was identified, whose actions caused €89 million of damage to 33,000 citizens of various European countries in March 2023.
Law enforcement professionals from the Investigative Department of the Georgian Finance Ministry on Friday searched a location in central Tbilisi in the latest operation against fraudulent transnational call centre schemes.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia on Saturday said it “intensively” continued to fight against transnational crime involving fraudulent call centre services, together with law enforcement agencies of European partner countries and under the coordination of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, in order to expose involved individuals and especially organisers of the transnational crimes.
The British public broadcaster BBC on Wednesday revealed its investigation into a fraudulent “call centre” scheme involving David Kezerashvili, a wanted former Defence Minister of Georgia in the United National Movement Government, in a report that detailed a global network of a scam operation targeting customers.
A total of 46 call centres operating in Georgia have suspended their activities while being investigated by the Ministry of Finance for alleged “illegal activities”, Lasha Khutsishvili, the Finance Minister of Georgia, said on Monday.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia arrested seven members of the organised crime group on Saturday as part of the international investigation against transnational crime involving fraudulent call centre services, in cooperation with the law enforcement agency of Switzerland and under the coordination of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, the body said on Sunday.