No: 74/26

Date: 11th September 2026

32 year old Georgian national Maguli KVRIVTCHIRISHVILI will be appearing before the Magistrates' Court this morning charged with one count of being in Possession of a Forged or Irregular Passport. The charge follows her arrest by RGP Special Branch officers on Wednesday 9th September at Joshua Hassan Gibraltar International Airport, after receiving information from UK authorities regarding anomalies identified within the application for a United Kingdom Entry Travel Authorisation (ETA) submitted by a passenger that was due to fly to the UK from Gibraltar that same evening.

Officers identified and intercepted KVRIVTCHIRISHVILI prior to her reaching the Airport Immigration Exit Check area, and found her to be in possession of a forged Lithuanian passport bearing some of her personal details under a false identity. Further enquiries confirmed the passport she intended to present to Schengen and Gibraltar Immigration authorities in order to board her flight to the UK was a forgery, and her genuine Georgian passport was found in her possession.

KVRIVTCHIRISHVILI was interviewed during her detention at New Mole House on Thursday, charged, and detained in police custody pending her appearance before the court this morning.