KGB of South Ossetia associates doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili with Georgian law enforcers

The violation of the border by doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili is related to a "hybrid operation" of the Georgian law enforcement bodies, the KGB of South Ossetia reports today. It also notes that the detainee participated in the armed conflict in August 2008 as a military doctor.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 9 and 11, four residents of Georgia were detained on the border with South Ossetia. Three of them were fined and handed over to the Georgian side, and a criminal case was instituted against orthopaedist Vazha Gaprindashvili. The authorities of South Ossetia claim that he crossed the border deliberately.

In total, 40 border violators have been detained since early November, reports today Ekaterina Byazrova, the spokesperson for the KGB of South Ossetia, on its page in Facebook. "More frequent cases of violation of the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia with Georgia are associated with the Tbilisi regime setting up an illegal checkpoint of the Georgian police in the area of the village of Uista (Tsnelis), and they are components of the same hybrid operation aimed at eliminating the concept of 'state border' of the Republic of South Ossetia and revising the main political results of August 2008," wrote Ekaterina Byazrova.

The South-Ossetian KGB's report notes that "South Ossetia will response to the provocative actions of Vazha Gaprindashvili and his supervisors exclusively under the law." According to the KGB of South Ossetia, Vazha Gaprindashvili is the Reserve Captain of the military-medical service of the Georgian army, and he took an active part in the armed conflict in August 2008 as a military doctor.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 19, 2019 at 02:03 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.