The Prosecutor’s Office charged Giorgi Ramishvili, Georgian businessman / founder of the Silk Road Group, with illegally carrying a firearm, a criminal offense punishable by 4 to 7 years in prison.

He was detained yesterday, July 6, with police reporting that law enforcers seized a firearm, a magazine, and cartridges while examining his hand luggage through a scanner at the departures terminal of Tbilisi International Airport.

“The defendant was found to have in his carry-on luggage a 9mm caliber “WALTHER PPK/S” model firearm, registered to him for possession, along with a magazine and seven rounds of 9mm caliber live ammunition, which he was carrying illegally.

The Prosecutor’s Office will petition the court within the legally prescribed timeframe for a custody detention order as a preventive measure”, - reads the statement.