HOT LINE 123
GE

News

22-08-2019

Anti-corruption Agency of the State Security Service of Georgia Detained Two Individuals

The officers of the Anti-corruption Agency of the State Security Service of Georgia, as a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, on the basis of judge’s ruling, detained a member of Khelvachauri Municipality Assembly, Jambul T, and a citizen Zaza T. on the fact of demanding and taking of bribe in especially large quantities.

Investigation established, that the member of Khelvachauri Municipality Assembly Jambul T., in agreement with his relative Zaza T., promised a foreign citizen to provide assistance in relation to purchase of 12 845,00 square meters of state-owned land plot located in a coastal strip of the Black Sea. In particular, Jambul T. had to introduce at the Assembly sitting the issue of sale of the land plot through auction and persuade members of the Assembly to take a positive decision about it, in exchange to what, he demanded USD 4 per a square meter, in total USD 51 380, out of which  he received USD 1000 in advance.

Investigation is in progress on the fact of demanding and taking of bribe in especially large quantities (Article 338, paragraph III, sub-paragraph “E” of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which envisages from 11 to 15 years of imprisonment).

Investigation is carried out by the Anti-corruption Agency of the State Security Service of Georgia.