One detained for cyber crimes in Tbilisi

Police have detained a Georgian citizen for cyber crimes in Tbilisi, Interior Ministry reported yesterday.

The ministry said the individual, identified only as A.B. and born in 2000, fraudulently accessed the Facebook accounts of 25 people between December 2019 and May 2020.

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