Russian Army Officer, His Mother Arrested for ‘Spying for Georgia’

Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said a Russian army officer and his mother were arrested on suspicion of spying for Georgia, the Russian media sources reported on January 14.

“A serviceman of one of the military unites in the Southern Military District, Senior Lieutenant David Aliyev, was arrested on suspicion of treason in a form of espionage; he was tasked by the Georgian special services to gather secret information about the military district,” an official from the Russian FSB was quoted by the Russian news agencies.

According to the same reports Aliyev’s mother, Irina Aliyeva, was also arrested as “she was intending to deliver information, gathered by her son, to Georgia.”

During last two years Russia imprisoned at least six persons charged with spying in favor of Georgia. 
 
In March 2010 Russia’s North Caucasus Military Court found one Georgian and two Russian citizens guilty of spying in favor of Georgia through gathering information about military facilities in North Caucasus.

In December 2009 the court in Russia’s North Ossetian Republic found a Russian citizen of Georgian origin guilty of spying in favor of Tbilisi and sentenced him to eight years in prison.

In October 2009 a Russian military court found a serviceman of the Russian armed forces guilty of spying in favor of Georgia and sentenced him to nine years in prison, while in August 2009 the same military court sentenced former deputy commander of one of Russia’s military units of North Caucasus Military District, Lt.-Col Mikhail Khachidze, to six years in prison.

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