Prosecutor's Office Charges Foreign Citizen with Fraudulent Acquisition of Large Amount

The Tbilisi Prosecutor's Office's Fraud Criminal Cases Procedural Management Department has charged a foreign citizen with fraudulent acquisition of a large amount of money. The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has released information about this.

According to the agency, the defendant was charged in absentia under Article 180, Part 3, Subparagraph "b" (fraud, committed in a large amount) of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which provides for up to 9 years of imprisonment as a form and measure of punishment.

“The investigation conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs established that the accused introduced himself to the victims as the director of a German company and allegedly transferred 222,700 euros to his own account from the Mercedes-Benz center under the pretext of purchasing a Mercedes car for them. The accused appropriated the transferred amount and used it for personal purposes, and sent the victims a fake bank transfer document allegedly for the return of the transferred amount.

The victims suffered a large amount of property damage of 656,000 GEL due to the actions of the accused.

The accused was charged in absentia under Article 180, Part 3, Subparagraph “b” (fraud, committed in a large amount) of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which provides for up to 9 years of imprisonment as a form and measure of punishment.

"The Prosecutor's Office will apply to the court within the time limit established by law with a request to impose imprisonment on the accused as a preventive measure," the information states.