Giorgi Bachiashvili, the former head of Georgia’s Co-Investment Fund and an ally-turned-rival of billionaire founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, has rejected claims by the penitentiary service [https://frontnews.ge/en/new...
Police in Georgia have detained 44 people on drug-related charges and seized what officials described as “particularly large quantities” of narcotics. Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze said on Friday the arrests followed large-scale ...
The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia on Thursday said its employees had detained one accused of unlawfully storing and disseminating intimate material on social media platforms. “The investigation revealed the suspect kept private, intimate images and...
Georgia’s penitentiary service has suggested that the reported beating of Giorgi Bachiashvili, the former head of the Co-Investment Fund and a key figure in the so-called “cryptocurrency case” involving the ruling party founder and honorary chair Bid...
Georgia’s financial investigation service has detained a foreign national accused of distributing counterfeit US currency in the Black Sea region of Adjara. Officials on Thursday said the suspect had attempted to gain material benefit by circulating...
Georgia has deported 30 foreign nationals in recent days following coordinated operations by the Interior Ministry’s Migration Department and other divisions of the ministry, the MIA announced on Tuesday. Those expelled were citizens of India, Turke...
Georgian law enforcement have arrested 37 individuals on charges of illegally purchasing, possessing and carrying firearms and ammunition, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. David Kiknadze, head of the ministry’s Central Criminal Police Departme...
Tbilisi City Court on Monday remanded in custody two activists, Tornike Toshkhua and Mindia Shervashidze, who were detained earlier this month during a pro-European rally on central Rustaveli Avenue. The pair are accused by prosecutors of participat...
Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office has charged a Russian citizen with bribery after he allegedly attempted to pay off a border guard to cross into the country without proper documents. The incident took place at the Dariali border checkpoint, where the s...
Georgia’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Friday announced it would appeal the acquittal of 22-year-old pro-European activist Tedo Abramov, who was recently cleared of charges of possessing a large quantity of MDMA and found innocent earlier during th...
