Prosecutor's Office files charges 4 individuals with preparation and storage of a particularly large amount of goods without excise stamps, including Juansher Burchuladze’s security guard
The Prosecutor's Office has charged four individuals with the preparation and storage of a particularly large amount of goods without excise stamps, including a member of the personal security guard of the former Minister of Defense, detained Juansher Burchuladze.
According to the agency, the defendants were storing an exceptionally large amount of filter cigarettes without excise worth more than 2,176,000 GEL, which were subject to mandatory excise stamps, and which were seized by the investigative body.
“The Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia has charged four individuals with the preparation and storage of goods without excise stamps in a particularly large amount.
The investigation conducted by the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance established that the defendants formed an organized criminal group in order to illegally obtain financial benefits.
The members of the group owned a plot of land in the city of Gori with buildings and technical equipment on it, where they manufactured and stored filter cigarettes subject to mandatory excise stamps without excise stamps, for the purpose of their subsequent sale.
In order to obtain greater benefits, the defendants mainly used the name and trademark of a well-known foreign brand to manufacture cigarettes.
On September 16-19 of this year, members of the organized criminal group, at the address of their criminal activity, were storing up to 325,000 boxes of excise-free filter cigarettes worth more than 2,176,000 GEL, which were subject to mandatory excise stamps, in an especially large amount, which were seized by the investigative body.
The members of the organized group were charged under Parts 3 and 4 of Article 200 of the Criminal Code (preparation and storage of excise goods subject to excise stamps in an especially large amount by an organized group), which provides for imprisonment for a term of seven to ten years as a form and measure of punishment.
The Prosecutor's Office will apply to the court within the time limit established by law with a motion to use detention as a preventive measure against the defendants," reads the statement.
