Tuesday, September 1, 2009

South Ossetian Officer Convicted of Spying for Georgia

The Supreme Court of South Ossetia, a Georgian breakaway province, sentenced Major Timur Gutsmazty (Guchmazov), formerly a South Ossetian border control officer, to 16 years of imprisonment for espionage. He was charged with selling secret information to the Georgian intelligence service. Reportedly, Guchmazov has Russian citizenship and was captured by the South Ossetian KGB on Russian territory.

http://newsru.com/world/31aug2009/spy.html
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1055055

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