"One person was arrested for fraudulently misappropriating a large amount of state-owned funds and large-scale property damage to the state budget through the production and use of forged tax documents," Report.ge was informed by the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance.
"The investigation established that the accused, who was the manager of 9 companies registered in Georgia, for the purpose of obtaining illegal material benefits, in 2017-2019, writing fake tax invoices and electronic invoices of GEL 9 996 280 for scrap delivery created a false value-added tax asset in the amount of GEL 330,615 for the entrepreneurial entities under his control part of which, in the amount of GEL 184,748, he fraudulently misappropriated, while GEL 145 867 was used to cover the budget liabilities," the agency said in a statement.
Real estate and bank accounts in the name of the accused have been seized.
The investigation is in progress under the first part of Article 210, Part 3 of Article 180, Part 3 of Article 185 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which envisages imprisonment for a term of 6 to 9 years.
