Special Investigation Service arrests one for disclosure of secrets of personal life
The body stressed its investigators had already identified several women, whose interests and rights would also be protected by the Service, adding the investigation was ongoing to inquire into “all criminal episodes” of the accused. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgia’s Special Investigation Service on Friday said it had arrested one individual for disclosure of secrets of the personal life of a 19-year-old victim girl and coercion into an action of a sexual nature with her.
The Service noted the arrested individual had placed advertisements in various groups of social media networks using fake profiles and invited young girls for a photo shoot for women's lingerie in return for a “proper payment”.
The body said that the offender had introduced himself from a fake social media account to the 19-year-old victim as a photographer's assistant in one of the closed groups and promised her a promotional photoshoot for women's lingerie not showing the victim's face in the photos. After arranging a photo session in his apartment, the accused person illegally obtained the girl’s intimate photos.
Upon the photo session, the offender continued to communicate with the victim girl by phone, forcing her to have sexual relations with him, otherwise, he threatened to send her intimate photos and videos to her relatives. After her refusal, the accused person publicly posted one of the intimate photos of the victim on his other fake profile and continued threatening her.
After the victim’s application to the police, the Special Investigation Service immediately carried out investigative actions together with the country’s Prosecutor's Office and seized mobile phones, computers, cameras, devices and other objects for the storage of electronic information during searches of the accused person’s residential house and personal vehicle.
The Service noted it had also seized more than 5000 photos and video materials of intimate content of about 200 women, including secretly filmed video footage, as well as messages containing threats and blackmail with other female victims.
The body stressed its investigators had already identified several women, whose interests and rights would also be protected by the Service, adding the investigation was ongoing to inquire into “all criminal episodes” of the accused.