Press releases

The Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia is conducting an investigation into possible facts of legalization of illegal income and deliberate evasion of a particularly large amount of tax by the heads of one of the casinos. Crime is envisaged by the Articles 194 and 218 of the Criminal Code of Georgia.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, through the coordinated activities with the representatives of the Customs Department of the Revenue Service, exposed fact of importing particularly large amount of goods through the customs border of Georgia, in violation of customs regulations and detained one person.

As a result of investigative activities, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, detained one person on the fact of fraudulent appropriation of other person's property by prior agreement as a group, attempted fraudulent appropriation of property, manufacturing and using forged official document and manufacturing forged document confirming the ownership of property.

Heads of the Investigation service hosted Dr. Leah Fox, Associate Head and Principal Lecturer of the University of Portsmouth of the United Kingdom. Meeting was also attended by Igoris Krzeckovskis - Senior Non-Key Expert on AML/CFT of EU project “Support to the Public Administration Reform in Georgia”.

Within the framework of the EU-funded project - "Support to the Public Administration Reform in Georgia" a virtual meeting was held at the Investigation Service, which was attended by: The expert of the project - Igoris Krzeckovskis, Senior Expert on Transparency and Accountability - Hendrikus van Boxmeer, representative of Economic Crime Investigation Unit of Finnish Customs - Sari Knaapi and Head of the Asset Management Directorate within Criminal Asset Recovery Agency (National Anti-corruption center of the Republic of Moldova) - Pavel Calpajiu.

Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia continues to actively carry out investigative activities in order to expose facts of so called "pharmacy drug addiction". In May as a result of the complex activities carried out through Tbilisi, 17 pharmacies operating in violation of the law were exposed.