Archive - 12/10/2013

Sat, 12/10/2013 - 09:25

Over the past week border guards of South Ossetia detained nine infiltrators

Over the past week, officers of the Border Control Agency of the FSB of Russia in South Ossetia detained 8 violators of the state border regime near the village of Artsev in Tskhinval district and one violator of the border regime was detained near the village of Balta, Znaur district.
As IA "Res" has been reported at the press service of the Russian FSB Border Control Agency, for further proceedings the detainees were handed over to the Border Service of the KGB of South Ossetia.
"Also, the border guards supervising the state border near the village of Artsev, while examining the abandoned building, discovered a cache in which there were two cartridges of the Kalashnikov submachine gun and more than fifty 5.45 mm caliber bullets. The discovered ammunition was on the spot handed over to the officers of the EMERCOM of the Republic ", - told the representative of the Border Control Agency.
Also, from September 27 to October 11, the KGB Border Service was considering the cases against nine persons.
"One of them is a citizen of South Ossetia detained in Znaur district and 8 people detained by the border guards on October 10 near the village of Artsev", - said the KGB official.
He has noted that three citizens of South Ossetia from among the eight citizens detained the day before near the village of Artsev were fined 2,000 rubles by court decision of Tskhinval district.
Two of them, presumably the citizens of Georgia, at the time of detention were without documents, their identity is being established. The three other citizens of South Ossetia are under investigation. The citizen of South Ossetia detained in Znaur district was verbally warned by court decision.