On 25 October at 12 a.m., the RF FSB Border Guards detained 16 Georgian citizens who had illegally crossed the state border of South Ossetia and were engaged in unauthorized wood-cutting, reported the Deputy Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Merab Chigoev. According to him, the trespassers were arrested in the village of Salbieri, Leningor district.
Presently, the detained Georgian citizens are located at the Leningor District Prosecutor’s Office. The case is under further examination, reported Chigoev. He underlined that according to primary information, the detainees are residents of the village of Gremiskhevi in Kaspi region of Georgia.
