Investigation Service detained two individuals on the fact of misappropriation of a large amount of someone else’s property

As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities carried out by the representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, in coordination with the General Prosecutor’s Office, detained two individuals on the fact of misappropriation of a large amount of someone else’s property by prior agreement as a group, and charges had been brought to one individual being in the absence.

Investigation determined that the accused, according to a preliminarily planned scheme, from two sealed trailers moving in the transit regime from Norway to Kazakhstan via Georgia, unloaded fish worth of GEL 1 144 716, which was illegally appropriated by members of the criminal group.

Investigation also established that in order to disguise the crime, the empty trailers left the territory of the country towards Azerbaijan. According to the documents submitted to the customs, the abovementioned fish was allegedly being transported.

Respective measures are being carried out in order to identify and expose other individuals, involved in the crime.

Investigation is underway under the second and third parts of Article 182 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which as a type and extent of sentence, envisage imprisonment from seven to eleven years.