The Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia, together with the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has arrested five members of a transnational organized criminal group.

"The investigation conducted by the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has established that during the criminal activity, members of the organized group fraudulently misappropriated large sums of money belonging to citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany and other countries and legalized illegal income obtained through the crime.

According to the criminal plan, the members of the group organized a call center in Georgia. The target of the criminal group was citizens living in different European countries.

The so-called call center, in accordance with the pre-designed plan, contacted citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany and other countries, provided them with fictitious names and false information about the location of their company and offered to trade in currencies, crypto currencies, etc”, a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office said at the briefing.

The detainees face nine to twelve years in prison if convicted.