---
title: "Locating and Bringing the Debtor"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/enforcement-services-en/locating-and-bringing-the-debtor-en-3047"
field: "Enforcement Services"
description: "Understand the legal rules for locating and bringing a debtor in Georgia. Find a qualified enforcement and asset recovery lawyer on Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Locating and Bringing the Debtor

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## Introduction and Service Overview

During enforcement proceedings, there are frequent cases where the debtor deliberately avoids cooperation with the execution officer, goes into hiding, changes their place of residence, and ignores official summonses. In such circumstances, the enforcement process may reach a dead end, as the physical presence of the debtor and their interrogation regarding their financial status are essential for conducting a series of investigative or legal actions. The law grants the creditor and the execution officer a powerful lever—the institution of locating and bringing the debtor. This service entails the execution officer issuing an order to the relevant departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to trace the person's whereabouts and forcibly bring them to the enforcement bureau or a specific site of enforcement action.

Locating and bringing a debtor is a temporary but strict restriction of a person's freedom of movement, which is permissible only in exact cases provided by law and in compliance with the principle of proportionality. It serves to ensure the administration of justice and sends a clear signal that disregarding a court decision will not go unpunished.

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### Can a debtor be sent to prison for unpaid debts?

No, the Georgian Constitution prohibits imprisonment simply for failing to pay a civil debt. "Bringing" a debtor means physically escorting them to the execution officer for an interview, not sending them to jail.

### What if the debtor is residing abroad?

If the debtor is officially proven to be outside Georgia, local police cannot physically bring them. The enforcement proceedings might be suspended, or the creditor may need to seek enforcement in the foreign jurisdiction.

### Who bears the cost of the police search?

Any administrative or logistical costs incurred during the search and bringing of the debtor are added to the enforcement fees and ultimately must be paid by the debtor.