TBILISI, January 30 – Georgia’s financial crimes investigators have arrested a food safety inspector in the country’s Shida Kartli region on suspicion of abusing official powers in exchange for personal gain. The Investigative Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia said the detained official was a chief inspector at the regional office of the … Read more
TBILISI, January 25 – Two men were shot and killed inside a car Saturday evening in the village of Mukhrani, just north of Georgia’s capital, in what authorities are treating as a double homicide. Georgia’s Interior Ministry confirmed that both victims were killed at the scene and said an investigation has been launched under articles … Read more
TBILISI, January 22 – Georgian police arrested 88 suspected drug dealers and people linked to drug crimes in a nationwide operation carried out over the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. The arrests were made in Tbilisi and across several regions, in what officials described as an unprecedented one-day crackdown. Ministry of … Read more
TBILISI, January 18 – Georgian police have arrested three people on drug charges after seizing what authorities described as a particularly large quantity of illegal narcotics, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. The arrests were carried out by police units from several districts of Tbilisi, as well as officers from the Kakheti regional police department. … Read more
TBILISI, January 15 – Cable thefts targeting highway lighting along one of Georgia’s main east–west transport routes have raised safety concerns, prompting warnings from road authorities. Georgia’s Roads Department said several incidents of damage and theft of external lighting cables have been recorded in recent months along sections of the E60 Tbilisi–Senaki–Leselidze highway, including the … Read more
TBILISI, January 8 – Georgia’s Interior Ministry says it has arrested a suspect over a deadly shooting at a jewelry store in the southern town of Marneuli, following a joint operation with Turkish police. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, officers from Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli police and Turkey’s Artvin provincial police tracked … Read more
TBILISI, December 28 -Georgia’s security services say four people were arrested and 11 charged after a nationwide anti-corruption operation carried out on Saturday. At a briefing, the Anti-Corruption Agency under the State Security Service of Georgia said investigators opened four separate criminal cases involving fraud, bribery and counterfeit currency. Searches and covert investigative measures were … Read more
TBILISI, December 8 – Police in Georgia’s Black Sea region have arrested a German citizen on allegations of possessing and preparing to distribute a large quantity of methadone, in what officials describe as a major narcotics case with international elements. The Interior Ministry said officers from the Adjara Police Department detained a 23-year-old German national … Read more
TBILISI, December 3 – A customs officer at Georgia’s main Black Sea port has been arrested on bribery charges after investigators said he sold confidential commercial data from a government database. The Finance Ministry’s Investigation Service reported Wednesday that the officer worked at the Revenue Service’s customs clearance zone in Poti, a major gateway for … Read more
TBILISI, December 3 – Police in western Georgia have arrested two men accused of stealing industrial fuel from a construction site on the runway at Kutaisi International Airport. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, officers from the Imereti Police Department detained two 27-year-olds employed as technicians at Spenus Group, a company working on the … Read more