Missing Businessman Thought to Be Abducted

(Tbilisi, Civil Georgia, December 5, 2002) – Amiran Natsvlishvili, director of the Automobile Construction Enterprise in Kutaisi, western Georgia, goes mission since December 2.

On December 5 the Prosecutor’s Office of Kutaisi initiated the criminal case on kidnapping. Earlier Rustavi 2 TV channel reported that Natsvlishvili is abducted.

This is the second case of abduction in last one week on the territory controlled by the Georgian government. Father of the Russian LUKOil company’s vice president was kidnapped on December 1.

Another abduction case was reported in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, which is out of Georgia’s control, where the Russo-Belarus oil company Slavneft’s vice president’s mother was abducted.

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