---
title: "Accessory After the Fact"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/accessory-after-the-fact-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Post-crime episodes in Georgia: failure to report and acts with seized property under the Criminal Code. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-11-05"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Accessory After the Fact

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/accessory-after-the-fact-en

## The Legal Boundary of Post-Crime Assistance

Georgian criminal law has no general norm of "accessory after the fact" or "harbouring": every case of assistance after a crime must fit a separately formulated composition. The two norms of this page draw precisely that boundary: Article 376 — failure to report a crime, applicable only to grave and especially grave crimes; and Article 377 — unlawful acts connected with inventoried, seized or confiscation-subject property. Everything else — for example, acquiring property obtained by crime as a separate offence — is governed by other norms, and this distinction is decisive for the defence: incorrect qualification often means multiplying the sanction frame several times over.

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### Which failure to report is punishable?

Only of grave and especially grave crimes.

### Concealing inventoried property?

Fine, one hundred eighty to two hundred forty hours of community service, or up to two years.

### Confiscation-subject property?

Two to five years.

### Does suspicion suffice?

No — actual knowledge is required.