As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia charged one person on the fact of manufacturing and using forged tax and other official documents, attempting to misappropriate a large amount of property rights by deceit and fraudulently damaging the state.

Investigation revealed, that the accused had issued forged tax invoices worth of GEL 48,133,232 on behalf of the companies under his actual management in order to obtain illegal material benefits and create false VAT assets, as if construction materials had been supplied, creating a counterfeit asset totally GEL 6,697,835 to his own companies. Then, on behalf of one of the companies, demanded the return of a part of the amount of GEL 804,381 from the fictitious surplus on the personal registration card of the company.

Due to the timely and prompt investigative activities, the accused was able to use only GEL 89,564 of the created counterfeit assets to cover the current budget liabilities of those companies.

Investigation is underway under the first part of Article 210 and the second part of Article 362, the third parts of Articles 180 and 185 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which envisage imprisonment from 6 to 9 years.