Forged Sale, Inheritance and Registry Documents

1. Making, purchase, storage for sale or use, sale or use of forged identity cards or other official documents, –

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

11. Forging data/information, and own signatures and the signatures of supporters, in relevant forms of the lists of supporters provided for by the Organic Law of Georgia – the Election Code of Georgia, own, as well as the signature of the supporter, –

shall be punished by a fine.

2. The act under paragraph 1 or paragraph 11 of this article:

a) committed repeatedly;

b) that has resulted in substantial damage, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of three to six years.

Note:

1. This article shall not apply to a person who committed the above act before acquiring the status of a victim of human trafficking due to him/her being a victim of human trafficking.

2. For the act specified in this article a legal person shall be punished by a fine, with deprivation of the right to carry out activities, or by liquidation and a fine.

3. For committing an act provided for by this article (except for the act related to the sale of forged official documents, seals, stamps or blank forms), criminal liability shall not be applied to an alien or a stateless person who has entered Georgia directly from the territory where he/she was under a threat provided for by Articles 15(1), 19(1), 38(3), or 22(1) of the Law of Georgia on International Protection, if he/she immediately, at the first opportunity, appeared before a state authority, presented a proper explanation of his/her illegal entry into Georgia, and requested international protection under the said Law, unless his/her act contains elements of another crime.

4. If it is determined by the relevant final decision on international protection that a foreigner or a stateless person is not in need of international protection, the release from criminal liability provided for by paragraph 3 of this Note shall not apply.

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

1. Fraud, i.e. taking property of another person or obtaining of title to the property by deceit for its unlawful appropriation, –

shall be punished by a fine or community service from 170 to 200 hours, or by corrective labour or house arrest for a term of one to two years, or by imprisonment for a term of two to four years.

2. The same act:

a) committed by more than one person with a preliminary agreement;

b) causing substantial damage, –

shall be punished by a fine or by imprisonment for a term of four to seven years.

3. The same act committed:

a) using the official position;

b) in large quantities;

c) repeatedly, –

shall be punished by a fine or by imprisonment for a term of six to nine years.

4. The same act committed:

a) by an organised group;

b) by a person who has two or more previous convictions for unlawful appropriation or extortion of another person’s property, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of seven to ten years.

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

Illegal registration of transactions related to land, distortion of registration data in the public land cadastre or reduction of the land tax for mercenary purposes or any other personal motives, –

shall be punished by a fine or community labour from 120 to 180 hours or by deprivation of the right to hold an office or to carry out activities for up to three years or by imprisonment for up to one year.

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