Alleged Kidnappers Arrested in Pankisi

(Tbilisi, June 23, 2003, Civil Georgia) – Police arrested three persons in Pankisi gorge on June 22, supposedly linked with the several abduction cases.

Three persons are close relatives of Vepkhia Margoshvili, a Pankisi crime lord, which was killed in the gorge last year. Margoshvili allegedly was a force behind the high-profile kidnappings in Georgia.

It is not known yet for which particular kidnappings Margoshvili?s relatives are accused.

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