As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, imposed criminal liability on 8 entrepreneurs on the fact of preparing and using of the forged payment documents by the group of people, in Kvemo Kartli region.

Investigation determined that, the accused persons, whose activities were connected to selling of wooden materials, including firewood, in order to avoid the tax payment, didn’t issue relevant commodity waybill in the process of selling the product. Instead of this, in order to cover up the above mentioned operation, they were issuing commodity waybill as if it was a document for internal transportation, whereas after selling a product, they would cancel the above mentioned document.

Investigation is underway under the second part of article 210 of the criminal Code of Georgia, which envisages imprisonment from 4 to 7 years.