As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia brought to criminal liability two persons on the fact of attempt to misappropriate property of another person by deceit, committed by the group, using the official position, in large quantities, through the manufacturing and using forged tax documents.

Investigation determined that the accused persons, in order to obtain illegal material benefits, with a prior agreement, on behalf of the companies under their actual management, manufactured forged tax invoices, as if they carried out a real estate purchase and sale operation, thus they illegally created a false VAT asset in the amount of GEL 998 389, from which they later attempted to return GEL 500 000 from the state budget.

As a result of the tax audit conducted within the framework of the investigation, the unreasonably created false VAT asset in the amount of GEL 998 389 was annulled.

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