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04-12-2018

The Anti-corruption Agency under the State Security Service of Georgia Detained one Individual on the Fact of Assistance in Receiving Bribes in Large Quantities in the Scope of the Case of so-called Pharmacy Drug Addiction”

The officers of Anti-corruption Agency under the State Security Service of Georgia, as a result of operative-searching and investigative activities conducted within the framework of ongoing investigation into illicit traffic of psychotropic medications in an area of so-called “Pharmacy drug addiction” detained the deputy director of the Ltd. “Regional Healthcare Center” Nugzar J. on the fact of assistance in receiving bribes in large quantities.

Investigation established, that illegal realization of psychotropic substances was carried out in pharmacies of Tbilisi and Gori. The directors and actual owners of the mentioned pharmacies, aiming at receiving private material gain, conducted realization of the psychotropic medications, as well as those subordinated to the special control without authorization and through breach of permission conditions, as a result of which they received the income in large quantities. The owners of the mentioned pharmacies, in the period of September 2017 including July 2018 paid large amounts of money to be handed to the head of the LEPL State Regulation Agency Gia Tvalavadze to Nugzar J. on a monthly basis in return to the protection provided for realization of the medications without authorization.

The officers of the Anti-corruption Agency brought 21 individuals to criminal justice in the scope of the mentioned criminal case whose income through illegal entrepreneurial activities and realization of psychotropic medications without prescription estimated up to GEL 4 094 709.

Investigation is carried out on the facts of assistance in receiving bribes, misusing official powers and illegal entrepreneurial activity committed by a group (Article 25-338 paragraph II, sub-paragraph “B”, article 332 paragraph I and article 192, paragraph II, sub-paragraph “A”, which envisages imprisonment up to 11 years) . The investigation is carried out by the Anti-corruption Agency under the State Security Service of Georgia.