Criminal Defence, Investigations & White-Collar Crime
Strategic representation for individuals, executives, businesses, foreign nationals and victims at every stage of Georgian criminal proceedings.
Criminal matters are procedural before they are theoretical. Choose the event that brought you here for immediate, practical guidance.
Immediate rights, the 72-hour arrest period and the first court appearance.
Read the guide →02Before giving a statement, understand your status, rights and evidential exposure.
Read the guide →03Practical steps during a home, office or digital-device search.
Read the guide →04Coordinate management, people, documents, devices and the defence response.
Read the guide →05Review the legal basis, scope, business impact and available challenge route.
Read the guide →06Airport, border, interpreter, embassy and Georgian counsel issues.
Read the guide →07Separate an international alert from Georgia's domestic legal process.
Read the guide →08Preserve evidence, report the matter and assess victim status and recovery paths.
Read the guide →09Defence, victim protection, police restraining orders and court protective orders.
Read the guide →10Immediate guidance after injury, death, intoxication testing or police questioning.
Read the guide →11Patient harm, consent, records, clinic conduct and reproductive-medicine allegations.
Read the guide →12Fatal or serious construction, energy and industrial accident investigations.
Read the guide →13Possession, storage, distribution, border movement, testing and confiscation questions.
Read the guide →14False denunciation, disputed testimony, correction and witness-pressure risks.
Read the guide →15Hacking, account takeover, private communications, online fraud and blackmail.
Read the guide →16Firearms, public-order incidents, self-defence and alleged resistance to police.
Read the guide →17Real-estate, land, inheritance, powers of attorney and registry-document cases.
Read the guide →18Illegal-entry allegations, travel documents, customs detention and foreign-national rights.
Read the guide →19Where to submit a complaint, what to include, what happens next and how to verify whether an investigation has started.
Read the filing guide →20A summons, interview request or request for evidence can carry different consequences. Check your status before responding.
Read the summons guide →You do not need to know the article number or formal offence. Start with the event, object, allegation or person involved; each section explains the possible legal classifications and the evidence that commonly matters.
Possession · distribution · import · testing
Hacking · account takeover · blackmail
Reports · testimony · witness pressure
Firearms · fights · police contact
Real estate · signatures · registries
Airport · documents · illegal entry
Confidential defence · victims · evidence
Accused minors · diversion · child safeguards
Directors · credit · cards · securities
Waste · pollution · logging · extraction
Deception · safety · medicines
Recruitment · exploitation · protection
Antiquities · provenance · export
Intolerance motive · threats · victims
Abduction · threats · forced movement
Assault, bodily injury, theft, robbery, homicide, extortion, organised crime and other principal Criminal Code allegations.
Enter by the accusation, the procedural event or your role. Each route connects legal explanation with the next practical step.
Advice and representation from the first contact with investigators through restraint measures, evidence, trial, appeal and post-conviction issues.
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Defence for companies, directors, executives and individuals facing fraud, tax, customs, money laundering or asset investigations.
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Georgian local counsel for foreign nationals, foreign companies and overseas lawyers in extradition and cross-border matters.
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Strategic assistance with criminal complaints, victim status, evidence preservation, asset tracing and parallel recovery options.
Explore this practice →These matters often combine an urgent police or prosecutor response with protective, regulatory, insurance, family or civil procedures. Each section keeps those legal tracks distinct.
Defence and victim representation, police restraining orders, court protective orders, stalking, threats, children and order compliance.
Explore the complete section →02Drivers · Victims · EvidenceSerious and fatal collisions, intoxication allegations, pedestrian incidents, vehicle defects, reconstruction and victim representation.
Explore the complete section →03Healthcare · IVF · SurrogacyPatient harm, consent, records, pharmaceuticals, clinic investigations, IVF, surrogacy fraud and cross-border reproductive matters.
Explore the complete section →04Workplace · Construction · IndustryFatal or serious workplace, construction, energy, gas and industrial incidents involving companies, officers, workers and families.
Explore the complete section →A summons, office search, seized server or frozen account can create legal, operational and reputational pressure at the same time.
We structure the response around the actual investigation: authority and jurisdiction, the status of each person, preservation of evidence, defence interviews, financial and digital analysis, communications with the prosecutor, and court applications where available.
Bribery, influence peddling, procurement, grants, municipal projects and state-company matters often involve layered approvals, tender records, payment flows, expert evidence and communications between public and private actors.
Explore the practiceVirtual-asset investigations can combine wallet analytics, exchange records, bank flows, device evidence, VASP registration, alleged illegal entrepreneurship and suspected laundering. Attribution, knowledge, control, transaction purpose and the lawful seizure of devices or assets remain central.
A complaint, the opening of an investigation and a victim-status decision are separate procedural events. Not every case follows the same route, and the applicable deadlines must be checked against the actual record.
Foreign nationals may face language, travel, immigration, consular and parallel foreign-proceeding issues in addition to the Georgian criminal case. We separate each legal process and coordinate them carefully.
Jurisdiction affects the documents, investigative team and immediate defence response. These independent guides explain institutional roles using official sources.
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A practical guide to immediate rights, charging, first appearance and restraint measures.
Read the guide →How audits, records, interviews and suspected tax offences can move into criminal procedure.
Read the guide →What an alert can—and cannot—do, and why domestic arrest and extradition rules still matter.
Read the guide →Clarify status and rights before avoidable statements, searches or document decisions shape the record.
The accused and defence lawyer may lawfully obtain and present evidence under Georgian procedure.
Separate company, director, employee, regulatory, tax and personal interests before choosing a response.
Align Georgian procedure with foreign counsel, consular contact and cross-border evidence without confusing their roles.
These answers describe general Georgian procedure as of August 2026. They do not determine the correct step in an individual case.
Ask about your situationAsk for a lawyer immediately, use your right to remain silent until you have received individual advice, request an interpreter if needed, and avoid signing a record you do not understand. Georgian procedure limits arrest to 72 hours; an indictment must be given within 48 hours or the arrested person must be released.
An accused person may use a defence lawyer and may remain silent. Your procedural position matters: a witness, person being interviewed and accused do not have identical obligations. Obtain advice before deciding whether and how to answer.
Property may be seized through procedures set by the Criminal Procedure Code. The legal basis, link to the alleged offence, proportionality and impact on third parties should be reviewed promptly. A freeze does not itself establish guilt.
Identify the authority and warrant or urgent legal basis, contact counsel, preserve the integrity of documents and devices, nominate a response lead, record what is taken, and do not coach or coordinate witness accounts.
A plea bargain is a written agreement involving the prosecutor, accused and defence lawyer and requires court approval. The judge must review voluntariness, understanding, evidence and whether the requested outcome is lawful and fair.
Yes. Foreign nationals and overseas companies may retain Georgian counsel. Interpretation, consular communication and cross-border coordination may be important, but an embassy is not a substitute for a defence lawyer.
Yes. Counsel can assist with the complaint, evidence, victim-status application, communications with investigators and prosecutors, and the relationship between criminal proceedings and possible civil recovery.
Urgent arrest and detention enquiries are separated from standard consultations, corporate investigations, international matters and victim/fraud enquiries.