Kezerashvili David Shotaevich

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2024: FSB revealed in Russia the network of call centers of ex-Minister of Georgia David Kezerashvili

Federal Security Service Russia On December 9, 2024, she stopped the activities of an international network call centers operating under the leadership of former Defense Minister Georgia David Kezerashvili. About 100 thousand people from more than 50 countries of the world suffered from the actions of fraudsters.

According to Kommersant, call centers were part of an international organized criminal community and carried out fraudulent actions under the guise of investment transactions. The daily income of the criminal network reached $1 million.

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During the operation, one of the leaders of the network, a citizen Israel Ukraine and Y. D. Keselman, was detained. The second leader is a citizen of Israel and Georgia D. Todva put on the wanted list. According to the FSB, in 2022, the defendants in the case disseminated false reports of impending terrorist acts in,, and To Moscow. Kursk Bryansk Belgorod

The FSB Investigation Department opened a criminal case under articles on the organization of a criminal community, fraud on an especially large scale and deliberately false reporting of an act of terrorism. In total, 11 managers and employees of the Russian offices of call centers were detained.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow in November 2024 arrested David Kezerashvili in absentia, who disappeared in London. The former Minister of Defense of Georgia, who headed the department in 2006-2008 under President Mikhail Saakashvili, was put on the international wanted list.

After the change of power in Georgia, several criminal cases were initiated against Kezerashvili, after which he left the country. In 2021, a Georgian court sentenced him in absentia to five years in prison in the case of embezzlement of public funds.

The geography of criminal activity covered the countries of the European Union, Great Britain, Canada, Brazil, India and Japan. The organizer of the criminal network is also the founder of the Milton Groups^[1]

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