Tbilisi Wants Russia to Extradite ‘Terrorist Suspects’
Georgian Interior Ministry has requested that Russia extradite two of its citizens – Anatoly Sisoev and Roman Boiko – who, according to the Georgian side, are suspected of carrying out a series of terrorist acts against energy facilities in Georgia in 2004.
In a statement issued by the Georgian Interior Ministry on January 23 these two men have been identified as ?officers of the Main Intelligence Administration? which is the Russian military intelligence agency (GRU – Glavnoye Razvedovatelnoye Upravlenie).
The statement reads that Sisoev and Boiko are suspected of carrying out explosions at the following facilities: the kartli-2 high-voltage power line in the Khashuri district on September 14, 2004; the Imereti high-voltage power line near the town of Gori on September 20, 2004; the Kartli-2 and Liakhvi high-voltage power lines, also near the town of Gori on October 9, 2004 and the Kartli-2 power line in the district of Sachkhere on October 10, 2004.
?The acts of sabotage carried out yesterday [when two gas pipelines and the Kavkasioni high-voltage power line were blown up in the North Caucasus] are a continuation of a series of the above-listed terrorist acts,? reads the statement by the Georgian Interior Ministry, but offers no evidence.
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