He finally reaches a human at Bank of Georgia’s “Complex Cases Unit” in Kutaisi. The agent whispers: “The form isn’t the problem. It’s the algorithm behind it. We have 300,000 people stuck in ‘enhanced due diligence.’ Half of them are legitimate. But we’re only allowed to clear 50 a day.”
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In November 2025, the Georgian National Bank signed a secret technical annex to the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD6). The price of closer EU integration? A KYC regime stricter than most Western banks. But the real driver is Russia’s full-scale financial war: over $3 billion in suspected shadow assets moved through Georgian accounts in 2025 alone, including funds tied to Wagner Group successors and sanctioned oligarchs using Georgian shell companies. He finally reaches a human at Bank of
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