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Georgia’s State Security Service detains 21 people on corruption charges
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The Anti-Corruption Agency within Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) has arrested 21 people in connection with corruption crimes in seven different cases.
The first case the SSG announced involved a psychiatrist and a security officer from the Interior Ministry who were detained in Tbilisi on charges of bribery, assistance in bribery, and official forgery.
According to the investigation, the two prepared a false medical diagnosis to a conscript, allowing him to evade military service.
The four doctors have been held criminally liable for group commercial bribery and the production and sale of false official documents, charges which carry a term of imprisonment of four to six years.
They have been charged with large-scale fraud, aiding and abetting fraud, official forgery, and the production and use of a fake official document by using their official position, and face up to nine years in prison.