According to information from the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, the relatively smaller portion of the so-called call centers was patronized by the former head of the SSS, Grigol Liluashvili, and former Prosecutor General Otar Partskhaladze through their close associates. This was stated by Prosecutor Mikheil Sadradze at a briefing held at the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia.

“During 2020-2023, despite the state's declared legal fight in this direction, several dozen fraudulent ‘call centers’ continued to exist in the country. According to witness testimonies, the vast majority of the ‘call centers’ belonged to a group of persons who financed various opposition media outlets from the revenues received, while the relatively smaller portion of the ‘call centers’ was patronized by Grigol Liluashvili and Otar Partskhaladze through their close associates.

In this case, the joint investigation conducted by the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia and the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance has established that during 2020-2023, under the patronage of Otar Partskhaladze, an organized criminal group with a structured form operated in Georgia in a coordinated manner. The group's aim was to illegally obtain material benefits and subsequently launder money.

Members of the organized group established several legal entities in Georgia, on the basis of which they set up fraudulent ‘call centers’ in various locations in Tbilisi, with Russian-, English-, and German-speaking departments. Call center operators, following instructions from management, lured victims to fake trading platforms by promising profitable investments, involved them in trading, fraudulently appropriated large amounts of invested funds or cryptocurrency from victims, and then placed, divided, and integrated the illegally obtained assets.

The functions of the organized group members included ensuring the smooth operation of the criminal ‘call centers,’ protecting the illegal activities of the call centers from law enforcement and other competing organizations, providing information support in case of exposure, and, as necessary, ensuring the exposure of so-called ‘non-compliant competitors’ to create conditions for their subsequent blackmail and recruitment,” - stated Mikheil Sadradze.