Employees of the Artseu Department of Internal Affairs detained the Georgian citizen who had illegally crossed the border of South Ossetia.
As reported by the press service of the Interior Ministry of South Ossetia, the violator of the state border was detained by the law enforcement officers the previous evening while patrolling the territory of the village of Artseu.
The identity of the man has been established; he turned out to be a 33-year-old citizen of Georgia.
The detainee was transferred to the KGB of the Republic of South Ossetia.