The Tbilisi City Court has issued final sentences to eight individuals involved in a case of group violence.
The ruling was delivered by Judge Tamar Mchedlishvili, dictating that three defendants, Zviad Tsetskhladze, Vepkhia Kasradze, and Vasil Kadzelashvili, received two years and six months in prison. The remaining five, Insaf Aliyev, Tornike Goshadze, Nikoloz Javakhishvili, Irakli Miminoshvili and Giorgi Gorgadze, were each sentenced to two years of imprisonment.
Court documents indicate that Tsetskhladze, Kasradze and Kadzelashvili were found guilty of organizing group crime, a charge that carries a statutory penalty of six to nine years behind bars. The other five defendants were convicted of participation in group violence which under the Criminal Code of Georgia is punishable by four to six years of imprisonment.
