Press releases

Within the frames of wide range operations carried out by the Investigation Service, in order to expose and suppress illegal logging and selling of timber, Head of the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia Mr. Levan Gamkrelidze, together with Business Ombudsman Mr. Irakli Lekvinadze met with the representatives of companies functioning in the logging and timber selling.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia in coordination with representatives of Customs Department of Revenue Service of Georgia, exposed two facts of breaching the procedure related to movement of especially large amount of goods across the customs border of Georgia and imposed criminal liability on three persons.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, exposed a fact of attempt to export especially large amount of drugs across the customs border of Georgia by means of filling in false information in customs documents.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out, representatives of the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia exposed two facts of storing, transportation and selling of especially large amount of goods subject to marking, without excise marks and imposed criminal liability on four persons.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, in coordination with the representatives of Customs Department of the Revenue Service of Georgia, exposed two facts of breaching the procedure related to the movement of large amount of goods across the customs border of Georgia and imposed criminal liability on two persons.

Within the current investigation, Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia will check all registered timber enterprises, despite their ownership. At this stage, two checks for the foreign companies (Chinese and Iranian) are appointed, the main sphere of activities of which is timber processing and selling.