MIA ARRESTED TWO MORE EMPLOYEES OF RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE

Prime News, Georgia
Sept 28 2006

The employees of MIA have arrested two more representatives of the
Russian Intelligence Service suspected of espionage on Wednesday night.

Prime-News was informed at the Ministry of Internal Affair that the
law inforcement bodies arrested Aziz Aslanian, the citizen of Georgia
in Batumi and Ruslan Skrilnikov in Tbilisi.

Zia Samnidze, suspected of espionage, the brother of Tamaz Samnidze and
the supporter of Igor Giorgadze detained on September 06, is wanted
by the Police. The search is also announced on Colonel Konstantin
Pugachin, who according to the preliminary information is hiding in
the headquarters of Russian military troops in the South Caucasus.

The Georgian special services are conducting piquet of the building
of the Headquarters of Russian troops, because this territory is
involiable from the diplomatic viewpoint.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested four high-ranking Russian
servicemen suspected of espionage on Wednesday. They are: Alexander
Sava, the Colonel of the above mentioned headquarters, Dimitry
Kazantsev, the Lieutenant Colonel, Alexander Alborov and Mayor Barnov
arrested in Batumi. Twelve Georgian Citizens are arrested with the
same accusations.

The group was led by Anatoly Sinitsin, the orginizer of the
Gori terror act, who is in Armenia now. They were conducting
intelligence activities in Tbilisi and Batumi, orginizing rather
serious provocations.