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As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, on the fact of manufacturing forged official documents, abuse of powers, negligence and storage and sale of particularly large amount of excisable goods subject to marking, without excise marks as a group, detained five persons, two of which are - the head of the company and his employee.

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 3 persons on the fact of manufacturing and sale of forged money in large quantities, by a group of persons with the preliminary agreement. One of them is detained.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia detained M.M, citizen of a foreign country on the fact of fraudulent misappropriation of money belonging to another person in large quantities by manufacturing and using forged official documents. 

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, detained one person on the fact of manufacturing and selling forged official documents.

Within the framework of the current case against businessman G.O., which is being investigated by the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance, it was determined that G.O., in December 2019, manufactured forged purchase agreements as if he purchased a company, having value of GEL 10 million, for GEL 42 million. After that, the same property, at an increased price - GEL 82 million, was sold to a company under his own actual ownership, from which GEL 33 million, obtained illegally, was subsequently used to cover the value of the company's shares, thereby disguising and giving a legal face to the particularly large amount of income received from his own company.

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out throughout Georgia, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, during the month of January of 2023, exposed 20 facts of storage, transportation and sale of excisable goods subject to marking, without excise marks, and brought to the criminal liability 20 persons, 9 of which were detained.