The officers of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a result of operative-searching and investigative activities detained Shota Ch. (DoB 1989) for misappropriation of cash in large quantities.
Investigation established that from June 2013 till January 2014 detainee visited and used www.paybox.ge web-page aimed for covering communal fees. Detainee transacted sums through online money transaction program on his account created on online gambling web-page. Shota Ch. in order to illegally appropriate money altered the amount of cash sent to the mentioned web-page owned by LTD “Novatechnology” by means of special technologies. He artificially decreased the amount of sum supposed to be transacted from his bank account and received cash in large quantities from “Novatechnology”. By means of the mentioned illegal manipulations Shota Ch. misappropriated 577 742, 71 GEL.
As a result of the searching activities held in the detainee’s house law enforcers seized computer technic, flash memory cards and plastic cards.
Investigation is in progress under the article 180, III part of the Criminal Code. The committed crime envisages from 6 to 9 years of imprisonment.
