On the criminal case under investigation by the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, on the possible fact of deliberate evasion of particularly large amount of tax, production and use of forged settlement documents and legalization of illegal income by the citizen G.O., during the investigation, in order to obtain the necessary evidence, on May 31st of 2022, on the bases of court ruling, investigative and procedural actions were carried out with the citizen G.O., as well as with persons and in the companies related to him.

As a result of search and seizure activities conducted on the basis of a court ruling at G.O.'s residential address, along with other material evidences, a large amount of money was seized, presumably narcotic and psychotropic substances were also found, therefore G.O. was detained under the first parts of Articles 260 and 261 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which envisages imprisonment up to 6 years.

Relevant measures are being intensively continued on the case, the results of which will be periodically informed to the public.