The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia arrested 3 people for fraudulent misappropriation of a large amount of money.

The investigation conducted by the Criminal Prosecution Division of the General Prosecutor’s Office on Corruption established that the members of the criminal group convinced the director of one of the private companies that they would allegedly be able to help him sign a tax agreement with the Revenue Service, thereby reducing the company’s 2,000,000 GEL to the state budget to 900,000 GEL and the tax lien/seizure on the property of the company’s real estate would be canceled.

In order to settle the above, the defendants demanded 200,000 GEL from the director of the company, allegedly to give it as a bribe to the senior officials of the Revenue Service, from which they made him transfer the part of the amount demanded 32,000 GEL to the bank account of one of the detainees.

Detainees were charged under Article 19,180, Part 2, Sub-paragraph “a” and Part 3, “b” Sub-paragraph “B” of the Criminal Code (fraud, that is, an attempt to fraudulently take possession of a large amount of money from someone else for the purpose of unlawful misappropriation by deception, committed by a pre-agreed group), which provides for imprisonment from 6 to 9 years as a form and measure of the sentence.

Based on the motion of the Prosecutor’s Office, the court has already sentenced the defendants to prison as a preventive measure. The investigation into the criminal case continues.