Press releases

Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia is planning to renew its vehicle fleet. Terms of warranty and exploitation have almost expired for those 40 vehicles registered on the balance of the Service, and being used for operative activities. Besides this, technical inspection of vehicles owned by the legal entities and state agencies becomes mandatory from July 1, 2018. It has to be noted that, important part of the vehicles owned by the Service is not eligible for the auxiliary criterias of the above mentioned technical inspection. Therefore, renewal of vehicle fleet of the Investigation Service became necessary.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, carried out by representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, one person was arrested on fact of breaching procedures related to movement of goods across the customs border of Georgia.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out by Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, head of one company was arrested on the fact of misappropriation of large amount of money by an organized group.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out by representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, criminal liability was imposed on twelve persons on the fact of misappropriation of large quantity of state land plots, with prior agreement by group of people, by means of forged documents.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out by representatives of the Investigation Service of Ministry of Finance of Georgia, one person was exposed on the fact of bribery.

Under the mutual project - Container Control Program (CCP) of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and World Customs Organization (WCO) –regular meeting of Managing Board was held in the Investigation Service of Ministry of Finance of Georgia. Main topic of the meeting was discussion of the progress of the Program, results achieved and future plans. Meeting was managed by coordinator of the Black Sea region at UNODC – Dr. Naida Chamilova.