What Article 181 of the Criminal Code of Georgia regulates
Extortion is an offence provided for by Article 181 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, directed against property relations and at the same time affecting a person's mental freedom. Under the law, extortion means the demand for the transfer of another person's property or property right, or for property benefit, coupled with the threat of the use of violence against the victim or his or her close relative, the destruction or damage of their property, the dissemination of defamatory information about them, or the threat of disseminating other information that may substantially harm their rights.
If a charge under this article concerns your family, or if you are the victim of extortion, it is important to know exactly what conduct counts as extortion, how it is classified into separate parts, and what punishments are provided. This page describes all three parts of the article in detail, together with the directions in which a defence lawyer works on such cases.