Nino Tatoshvili, criminal defence lawyer in Georgia
Medical & reproductive criminal law

Illegal Medical or Pharmaceutical Activity

Illegal medical or pharmaceutical activity: verify licences, scope of practice, product authorisation, individual conduct, health damage and causation.

English legal guideTbilisi · Georgia-wide
Short answer

Unlicensed or unlawful medical and pharmaceutical activity may engage criminal, regulatory and professional rules, particularly where controlled substances, serious harm, false credentials or commercial deception are alleged.

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Clinical and criminal analysis

Start with duty, record and medical causation

Licensing or regulatory non-compliance must be separated from any alleged unauthorised practice, falsification or harm offence.

Clinical-legal question

What activity required authority, who performed or directed it, what licence existed and what product or patient consequence followed?

Independent expertise should identify the applicable specialty standard and limitations; it should not be asked to declare criminal guilt.

The unaltered clinical record matters first

Licences, staffing and role records, prescriptions, batch traceability, invoices, storage data, regulator correspondence and testing.

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Clinical chronology

Reconstruct condition, decisions, interventions and response.

02

Individual duty

Distinguish practitioner, clinic, agency and executive roles.

03

Causation

Test competing medical explanations and legally assessed harm.

Criminal Code articles to check

Articles that may enter the qualification

Article 246

Illegal medical or pharmaceutical practice

Potentially relevant where unauthorised practice allegedly causes health damage or death; licensing, individual conduct and causation must be established.

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Relevant Criminal Code wording

Read the relevant Criminal Code provisions

The panel below reproduces the available official English wording for convenient reading. Check the current Georgian text and the exact article part before relying on it, because later amendments may not yet appear in translation.

Article 246Illegal medical or pharmaceutical practice

1. Illegal medical or pharmaceutical practice that results in health damage, –

shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment for up to three years.

2. The same act that has resulted in loss of human’s life, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of three to seven years, with or without deprivation of the right to hold an office or to carry out activities for up to three years.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

First controlled step

Freeze the relevant operational records and map actual functions rather than job titles.

Sources & legislation

Primary sources for this guide

Before acting, compare this guide with the current Georgian text and the exact document served in the case. The official English translation may not include the latest amendment.

Official consolidated Criminal Code — current text & PDFLaw on Health CareLaw on Patient Rights
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