Geotimes.ge: South Ossetia, Abkhazia Jail Two for Spying
posted by circassiankama on September, 2009 as Abkhazia
S.Ossetia, Abkhazia Jail Two for Spying
Court
in Tskhinvali found a former serviceman of breakaway South Ossetia’s
border guard unit guilty of spying in favor of the Georgian side and
sentenced him to 16 years in prison.
Temur Gutsmazti was
arrested and charged with treason in September, 2008. The breakaway
region’s government has claimed that Gutsmazti was providing the
Georgian Interior Ministry information of military nature.
Meanwhile,
in breakaway Abkhazia a local supreme court found guilty a 40-year-old
woman of spying in favor of Georgia and sentenced her to 19 years in
prison, according to the Russian media reports. Diana Shedania was
arrested in September, 2008.
On August 28 Russia’s North
Caucasus Military Court found a former deputy commander of one of the
Russia’s military units of North Caucasus Military District, Lt.-Col
Mikhail Khachidze, was found guilty of spaying in favor of Georgia and
sentenced to six years in prison. Khachidze, according to the court
files, was recruited by the Georgian special services in autumn, 2007.
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