On April 19, 2014 the officers of the State Security Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and the Prosecutor`s Office of Georgia as a result of joint activities prevented the facts of attempted cybercrime and forgery by a group in large quantities.
The investigation revealed that on April 18, 2014, approximately at 20 hours and 45 minutes, David I. learned the first category prize winning numbers - 5, 9, 15 , 19, 30, 32 - of the Ltd “Georgian Lottery Company”. David I. was employed at the Ltd "The Georgian Post" and held the position of the IT Service database administrator. His duties included software and database administration of the Ltd "The Georgian Post" and the Ltd “Georgian Lottery Company”.
He misused his official position; since he had unrestricted access to the server, he artificially, without permission altered computer data and created fake winning lottery ticket with a unique code containing the above mentioned digits.
Immediately upon registration of the mentioned ticket the first prize category – Jackpot in amount of 561 176 GEL – was announced, though David I. failed to achieve his criminal intention aiming illegal taking possession of money as he was arrested and accused of crime.
On April 20, 2014 David Iashvili was accused of the crime envisaged by the sub clause “b” of the III part of the article 19, 180 of the Criminal Code of Georgia (forgery in large quantities), the I part of the article 210 (fact of manufacture of the false document certifying property rights) and the sub clause “b” of the III part of the article 286 (cybercrime, the fact of unauthorized modification of computer data).
The investigation carried out over the case showed that David I. acted jointly with Sophio K. in prior conspiracy. The fake lottery winning ticket manufactured by David I. was used by Sophio K. to take in illegal possession the Jackpot in amount of 561 176 GEL.
On April 26, 2014 Sophio K. was accused of the crime envisaged by the sub clause “b” of the III part and the sub clause “a” of the II part of the article 19, 180 of the Criminal Code of Georgia (attempted forgery by a group in large quantities) and the sub clause “a” of the II part of the article 210 (fact of manufacture of the false document certifying property rights by a group).
The investigation over the case is conducted by the Investigation Main Division of the State Security Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
