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Foreign embassies and media advocates condemned the sentencing of Mzia Amaghlobeli after a Georgian court jailed the veteran journalist.

Professional scammers call upon a global network of service providers to execute their work in a sophisticated, streamlined fashion. Here are some of their names.

Unreleased Beyoncé music and tour footage stolen from team members’ car in Atlanta

Greek island has been struggling with multiple wildfires that erupted simultaneously on Sunday, having already swept through an estimated 40,000 hectares

Tbilisi court orders detention of Georgia’s former deputy economy minister, who stands accused of abusing his power to secure illicit wealth—including property in Spain uncovered by OCCRP’s Georgian member center.

In the U.S. state of Georgia, a child was born to Adriana Smith, a woman who had been declared brain-dead two months into her pregnancy.

A British teenager, accused of drug smuggling and facing a life sentence in a Georgia prison, has revealed that she is ’pregnant’.

A teenage girl who had been missing for four days in Thailand has been arrested on ‘drug offences’ in Georgia.

Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in the US has been evacuated after a reported bomb threat with passengers saying they are stranded on the tarmac and have seen sniffer dogs on site

MAGA ally Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall plunges into disorder as protesters are tasered at the event.

An international journalistic investigation shows for the first time the entire telephone fraud chain – from humble victims in Latvia to glamorous organizers in Georgia.

Georgians were shocked and outraged after investigative reports exposed a Tbilisi-based call center, where young scammers ruthlessly stole millions from foreign victims while mocking them.

Georgian authorities have frozen the assets of key figures involved in a massive call center fraud, including real estate and business shares, following an investigative exposé.

The Tbilisi City Court has sentenced former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to nine additional years in prison

Two professional scam call-center operations relied on affiliate marketing firms to provide them with contact details of individuals who had clicked on ads for fake investment platforms.

Georgian prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into a Tbilisi-based scam call center that defrauded thousands worldwide, following its exposure by journalists.

In 2022, while researching locally-based companies that were potentially violating sanctions, Alkagesta was on my list. The Azerbaijani-owned company is a commodity trader headquartered in Malta with operations in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and even Georgia.

A front page from the New York Post displaying the US president’s mugshot was spotted hanging in a golden frame.

Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ruling Georgian Dream party has faced accusations of election fraud and increasingly authoritarian leadership, and he was sanctioned by the U.S. in December. Some of his valuable assets are now held in entirely domestic structures.

Around 100 women were kept as slaves on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were fed hormones and treated like cattle.

A baby died from burns after his high mum attempted to warm him up with a hair dryer then passed out with it still on, authorities claim.

The Mayor of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, Kakha Kaladze, is at the center of a scandal involving his personal life.

The indictment accuses the developers of operating mixers used by hackers and cybercriminals, posing public safety and national security threats.

In Georgia’s recent parliamentary elections, the decisive factor in the ruling Georgian Dream party’s victory was the use of “carousels”: a method of vote rigging in which voters cast their ballots at more than one polling station.