Officers of the Division for Combating Cybercrime of the Main Division for Combating Organized Crime, Central Criminal Police Department of the MIA arrested G.L. – date of birth: 1996 - on fraud charges as a result of operative-investigative activities.
The sentence for the offenses is the term of imprisonment from 4 to 7 years.
The investigation revealed that in December 2020, G.L registered a fake user profile on Facebook in the name of a Georgian citizen living in Canada, after which he added friends and wrote to one of them - N.G., who lives in the United States, as if her son had financial problems and she had to send $300 to Georgia immediately. N.G thought that she had in fact communicated with her relative and on the same day, through the international system of express transfers, she sent 300 USD from the United States to Georgia in the name of G.L. The mentioned amount was withdrawn by G.L from the branch of one of the commercial banks, thus causing substantial damage to N.G.
The fact of fraud, which caused substantial damage, is being investigated under the subparagraph “b” of the 2nd part of the article 180, Criminal Code of Georgia.
