The State Security Service of Georgia has launched a new criminal investigation against former defence and interior minister Bacho Akhalaia. The agency said the investigation has been opened under Article 317 of the Georgian Criminal Code, which con...
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara on Monday announced the arrest of a police detective from the Third Division of the Batumi City Police Department in connection with an armed robbery. The detective allegedly attacked a ma...
The State Security Service of Georgia on Monday announced that its Anti-Corruption Agency had detained 30 people in connection with 12 criminal cases during a large-scale anti-corruption operation across the country. The operation targeted a range o...
Detained Georgian opposition politician Aleko Elisashvili has told a court that he was beaten by police and injured by handcuffs following his arrest. Speaking during a hearing on Monday, Elisashvili said he had been kept in handcuffs behind his bac...
A court in Georgia has sentenced a representative of the Media Development Foundation (MDF), Zviad Mzhavanadze, to four days in administrative detention. The organisation on Monday said the ruling was delivered on 9 March after Mzhavanadze was detai...
Police in Georgia have arrested two people in Tbilisi on suspicion of possessing and facilitating the distribution of particularly large quantities of narcotic substances. The Ministry of Internal Affairs on Monday said officers from the Vake-Saburt...
Police in western Georgia have arrested two citizens of Azerbaijan on suspicion of possessing and distributing large and especially large quantities of narcotic and psychotropic substances. Officers from the central criminal police department of the...
Police in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi have arrested a citizen of Azerbaijan on charges related to drug offences, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. Officers from the Patrol Police Department of the Ministry of Interna...
A Turkish citizen was detained at Tbilisi International Airport in Georgia’s capital for attempting to illegally import a large quantity of psychotropic substances, authorities said on Saturday. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia said law e...
Police in western Imereti region of Georgia have seized a particularly large quantity of narcotics and arrested four people on drug-related charges, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Saturday. The suspects were detained at different times on ...