The office of prosecutor of Georgia have charged four persons for committing fraud. They formed an organised gang for illegally obtaining large sum of money from victims.
The prosecutor office while taking to the official social media handles shares this information. The official Facebook page of services also shared detailed about the incident.
As per the official Facebook page, “The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia has charged four individuals for defrauding citizens of large amounts of money. An investigation conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs revealed that members of an organized fraud group developed a criminal scheme to defraud citizens of large amounts of money.”
It also stated that, the fraud group members contacted citizens pretending to be law enforcement officers and informed them that their family member is in the hospital because of an accident. The fraud group members explained to them that the accident was caused by their family member and that it was necessary to send cash to avoid liability and save their lives.
Moreover after getting the citizens to agree to transfer the money, they would go to the victims as couriers and take the money from the victims. It is to be noted that, according to a pre-developed criminal plan, the defendants fraudulently acquired 1,041,336 GEL belonging to 53 citizens.
The arrested persons were charged with large-scale fraud committed by an organized group, which provides for a sentence of 7 to 10 years of imprisonment. Meanwhile on the basis of the prosecutor’s office’s motion, the court sentenced the defendants to imprisonment as a preventive measure.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs continues the investigation to identify other persons involved in the crime and to establish other criminal episodes, after which the number of victims may increase
Notably the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia calls on citizens to be careful with similar phone calls and in the event of similar actions to immediately contact law enforcement agencies.
