Tskhinvali Says Detained Georgian Citizen

Authorities in breakaway South Ossetia said they arrested a former member of Tbilisi-based South Ossetian provisional administration, Teymuraz Jerapov, on April 22 “while trying to cross into South Ossetian border from Georgia” close to Sinaguri of Java district.

Jerapov, an ethnic Ossetian, served as economy minister for about two years in the provisional administration of South Ossetia – a body established by Tbilisi in late 2006 in an attempt to create alternative to Tskhinvali-based authorities. 

A statement posted on a website of breakaway region’s government says that Jerapov, a Georgian citizen, was wanted by Tskhinvali for unspecified “crimes committed on the territory of South Ossetia”.

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