Georgian MIA: Spy Suspect Arrested
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said on November 30 it has arrested a Georgian citizen suspected of cooperation with ?the special services of the Russian Federation and unrecognized South Ossetian authorities.?
According to the Interior Ministry, Kakha Bagauri, 29, was providing information about the location of strategic Georgian facilities to Russian special service operatives in South Ossetia ?for carrying out acts of sabotage there.?
The Interior Ministry has disseminated video footage in which Bagauri says that he has been cooperating with the special services in breakaway South Ossetia since 2005.
The Georgian Interior Ministry also claims that Bagauri was instructed to recruit ?Chechen hitmen with the aim of liquidating Dimitri Sanakoev? ? the Tbilisi-loyal, self-imposed president of South Ossetia who claimed victory in the so-called alternative elections.
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