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09-01-2018

State Security Service of Georgia Detained One Individual on the Fact of Financing, Providing other Material Support and Resources to Terrorist Activities

Counterterrorism Department under the State Security Service of Georgia on the basis of court ruling detained a citizen of Georgia Zurab Idoidze today in Akhmeta. Search activities have been carried out in his house in village Omalo.

On this stage of the investigation it is established, that the detainee Zurab Idoidze travelled along with Zurab Gornakashvili to town Khopha, Turkey in order to assist Ahmed Chataev and the members of his group. The detainee along with Zurab Gornakashvili took Ahmed Chataev and his group members from temporary housing in Khopa to the Kirnati-Maradidi green border section of Turkish-Georgian border by car.

Investigation is carried out according to Article 331(1), part III – Financing, Providing other Material Support and Resources to Terrorist Activities which caused grave results. The article envisages imprisonment for a term of 17 to 20 years or life imprisonment.