South Ossetia denies involvement in organizing the terrorist attack at
the NATO office in Tbilisi, Yuga.ru reports.
The Georgian police said that Badri Gogiashvili was arrested in the
Mtskhet district with a bomb. He said that he had received orders from
Alexander Sokolov, a Russian military commander at Akhalgori, Vladimir
Pukhayev, the Police Chief of Akhalgori, and a police officer to find
a building of an international organization, GHN cites a spokesman of
the Georgian Interior Ministry, Giorgy Bukhrashvili.
Suspects named by Badri Gogiashvili attempted to attack the NATO
office in Tbilisi. Gogiashvili received $2000 for the service, Georgia
Online reports.
The Police Chief of the Leningorsky district of South Ossetia, Valery
Pukhayev, denies involvement in the organization of the terrorist
attack and neither does he know Gogiashvili, he said in an interview
with ITAR-TASS.
Tskhinvali denies involvement as well and called the information “a
cheap provocation”, adding that its organizers did not even care to
clarify names of the South Ossetian police.
Russian officer Alexey Sokolov does not even exist, Ossetian Radio
cites the Russian border directorate of the FSB and the fourth
military base of the Russian Defense Ministry.
The press-service of the president and government of South Ossetia
said that the reason for such information is the desire to draw
attention from Georgia’s interior problems and criticize South
Ossetia. Such activity is common for Georgia during every round of
talks on Trans-Caucasus security in Geneva, the press-service
concluded.
