The officers of the Main Division for Combat Organized Crime of the Central Criminal Police Department of the MoIA has deciphered criminal scheme and as a result of operative-searching and investigative activities held in Tbilisi and Zestafoni simultaneously detained 10 members of criminal group on the fact of smuggling: Revaz B.(Dob 1986), Nugzar J.(Dob 1986), Aleksandre G.(Dob 1980), Davit B.(Dob 1990), Davit K.(Dob 1988), Aleksandre K.(Dob 1981), Erekle M.(Dob 1988), Levan A.(Dob 1988), Guram Ch.(Dob 1985) and Davit K.(Dob 1975).
The investigation showed that the detainees were busy with searching for the vehicles useless for operation and claiming as if intending to repair them they registered such vehicles in their names. Besides, they fraudulently fixed the VIN codes and the number plates to the other operable vehicles of the same model and colour; consequently the detainees – for a certain amount of money – mortgaged such vehicles with fraudulent VIN codes in different micro-financial organizations and the banks, inflicting in this way a large amount of material damage to these organizations.
The law enforcers seized money, false “VIN codes” and state numbers as evidence.
Investigation is in progress on the fact of swindling by group, Article 180 part II sub-paragraph “a”.
