Sokhumi Accuses Tbilisi of Plotting Sabotage on the eve of Elections

Security Minister of unrecognized Abkhazian Republic Mikhail Tarba accused Georgian special services of plotting sabotage and terrorist acts in the breakaway region on the eve of the presidential elections, scheduled in the breakaway region for October 3.

He added that the Georgian authorities allocated 800,000 Lari (up to USD 470,000) for these purposes.
 
?The Georgian special services aim to disrupt the forthcoming presidential elections and trigger destabilization in Abkhazia,? Abkhaz news agency Apsnypress reported on September 9 quoting Mikhail Tarba as saying.
 
?The lives of the presidential candidates are in real danger,? he said, adding that the Georgian armed groups have been noticed in the regions of Gulripshi and Ochamchire of breakaway Abkhazia.