As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, brought to the criminal liability two persons on the fact of a large amount of property damage to the state and intentional evasion of taxes in particularly large quantities, through manufacturing and using of forged tax documents, committed as a group.

Investigation determined that the accused persons, in order to receive illegal material benefits, on behalf of the companies under their management, through manufacturing and issuing forged tax invoices between each other, created counterfeit asset of GEL 279 343 to one of the companies, which was later used to cover the existing tax liabilities of the company. 

In addition, one of the accused persons, in the course of the activity of the company under his actual management, through violation of the tax legislation, was systematically submitting incorrect declarations of income, thus he avoided paying taxes in the amount of GEL 331 061 in favor of the state budget.

Investigation is being continued under the second part of Article 210, under the second and third parts of Article 185 and under the second part of the Article 218 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which envisages imprisonment from 4 to 8 years.