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Caucasus Report
Russia Accuses Azerbaijan, Georgia Of Abetting Transfer Of Funds To
North Caucasus Resistance
May 04, 2009
Three days after the Georgian Foreign Ministry rejected as unfounded
Russian allegations that Chechen militants are again using Georgian
territory as a base from which to launch acts of terrorism in
Chechnya, Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika on April 30 accused
both Georgia and Azerbaijan of failing to take effective measures to
curtail the flow of funds to the North Caucasus resistance.
In his annual report on law and order in Russia in 2008, Chaika
alleged that in most cases the cash is transferred from sponsors
abroad by couriers who enter the Russian Federation via Azerbaijan or
Georgia, if necessary bribing Russian border guards.
Georgian Foreign Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili immediately
responded that his ministry does not know of a single such case, and
has received no official communication from the Federal Border Service
that couriers have been intercepted.
In Baku, Eldar Sultanov, who heads the press service of the
Azerbaijani Prosecutor-General’s Office, was quoted by the online
daily zerkalo.az on May 1 as saying that the office has received no
formal notification of any such cases from its Russian counterpart.
For that reason, he declined to comment on Chaika’s statement.