Minister: Investigation into Bush Grenade Case Moves to End

Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili told the Tbilisi-based Rustavi 2 television on July 23 that the investigation into the Bush grenade incident ?moves to an end.?

?We are now trying to identify all the possible links of the suspect, or his possible accomplices,? Vano Merabishvili said.

Tbilisi City Court sentenced Vladimer Arutunian, who is suspected in Bush grenade incident, to three-month pre-trial custody on July 23.

Criminal charges were brought against Arutunian, who is currently in hospital, on July 22 for premeditated murder in the killing a security official during the shootout when the police tried to capture him late on July 20. No charges were brought against Arutunian for grenade incident yet. Investigators are still searching for a motive in the case.