Georgia’s law enforcement authorities have detained several ‘thieves in law’, Deputy Interior Minister of Georgia Natia Mezvrishvili told at a briefing on Monday, an APA correspondent reported from Tbilisi.
A ‘thief in law’ in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states is a specifically granted formal status of a professional criminal who enjoys an elite position within the organized crime environment and employs informal authority over its lower-status members. A ‘thief in law’ is similar to mafia boss.
Mezvrishvili said that three ‘thieves in law’, aka Chiki, Buba and Amberguna, had entered into a criminal conspiracy with Georgian criminals in Turkey to misappropriate the funds of some citizens.
Mobile phones, ammunition and other means of information were seized in a course of the search carried out in the detainees’ houses.
The detainees may face prison sentence from 5 up to 15 years.
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