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Former Lagodekhi municipal official charged with land fraud
The State Security Service of Georgia on Monday said it had filed charges and arrested the former Mayor’s representative of Lagodekhi municipality in Ninigori administrative unit of eastern Georgia for fraud. The agency said the suspect, who took t...
Former sports department head arrested after altercation with Chkhorotsku Mayor
Edik Kvaratskhelia, the former head of the sports department in Georgia’s western Chkhorotsku municipality city hall, has been arrested on charges related to an altercation with the mayor of Chkhorotsku, Dato Gogua. The altercation led to Kvaratskhe...
Georgian law enforcement seize more than 5 kg illegal gold jewelry
The investigative service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, along with the customs department of the Revenue Service, have arrested an individual involved in smuggling of over five kilograms of gold jewelry valued at 535,000 GEL. During the in...
Court sentences husband of wife’s brutal murder in Georgia to life imprisonment
Rustavi City Court in central Georgia has rendered its verdict, fully endorsing the evidence put forth by the prosecutor’s office and declaring the defendant culpable of the deliberate slaying of his wife with exceptional brutality, motivated by gend...
Georgian police arrest four for defrauding foreign tourists
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, acting upon a judge’s ruling, has apprehended four individuals on charges of participating in fraudulent activities against tourists as part of an organized group, the body said on Wednesday. According t...
Four killed, one injured after shooting in Rustavi
A shooting incident occurred in the market area of Rustavi, central Georgia, resulting in the deaths of four individuals and the injury of one person, the Georgian Interior Ministry confirmed on Friday, It was determined that G.O.-M., born in 1988, d...
Father arrested for raping daughter after minor gives birth
Father was arrested in western Georgia for raping his daughter, after the minor gave birth prematurely but the fetus died. A resident in the same village cited the 17-year-old as saying that father had raped her for two years. The suspect, who has...
Tbilisi names Ukrainian citizen behind alleged scheme after seizure of explosives “targeted” for Russia
The Georgian State Security Service (SSS) on Monday said it had identified Andrey Sharashidze, a Ukrainian citizen of Georgian descent and former candidate for deputy of the Kyiv district of Odessa from the Servant of the People party, as the purport...
Georgian civic activist sentenced for vandalizing icon featuring Stalin
The Tbilisi City Court on Friday sentenced civic activist Nata Peradze to five days of administrative detention for pouring paint on an icon of Matrona of Moscow featuring Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin in the Trinity Cathedral last month. The contro...
442 fatalities, 7,310 injuries reported in Georgia’s road accidents in 2023
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Friday reported 442 fatalities and 7,310 injuries across the country last year. A total of 5,594 traffic accidents were documented across the country in 2023, with a significant portion concentrated in the capit...
