Former Tbilisi Police Division Chief arrested for false Accusations and bribery
As a result of investigative actions by the Department of Criminal Prosecution on Corruption Crimes of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, along with employees of the General Inspection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the former chief of the 4th police division of the Tbilisi Police Department and his former deputy were arrested.
The investigation revealed that the head of the division accused a citizen of drug addiction without any legal basis, threatened him with arrest, and extorted a bribe of $3,500 through psychological violence. The deputy head of the same division conducted an illegal search at the citizen’s residence, taking away personal belongings without legal basis.