What the Article on False Denunciation Covers
Article 373 of the Criminal Code of Georgia covers false denunciation of the commission of a crime — the provision to a competent state authority of information incriminating a person in a crime, at a time when the denouncer knows the information is false. This crime is directed against the administration of justice: it sets the state apparatus moving in a false direction and places an innocent person at risk of persecution.
In practice, false denunciation cases often arise against the backdrop of family or neighborhood conflict, property disputes or personal enmity: one party tries to turn the criminal mechanism against the other and, for this purpose, reports inaccurate or entirely invented facts to the prosecuting authorities.