One more arrested for allegedly helping IS-linked terrorist Chataev enter Georgia
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The State Security Service of Georgia has arrested yet another man for allegedly helping Akhmed Chataev, an Islamic State-linked terrorist, enter Georgia.
The Counterterrorism Department of the State Security Service detained Georgian citizen Anatoli Berdzenishvili yesterday.
Based on the investigation, Berdzenishvili travelled to Turkey to assist Chataev and his group.
In particular, Berdzenishvili, together with Zurab Gornakashvili and Zurab Idoidze, drove Chataev and his accomplices from their temporary residential area to the Turkey-Georgia border near the Kirnati-Maradidi ‘green border’ (a section of border between crossing points).
Berdzenishvili is arrested for charges related to financing terrorism, provision of other material support and resources to terrorist activities. If proven guilty, the charges will send him to jail from 17 to 20 years or for life.
One suspected terrorist has been arrested and three killed during November's anti-terrorist operation on Gabriel Salosi Street in Tbilisi. Photo source: Giorgi Abdaladze/Facebook
A large-scale counter-terrorism operation took place in the outskirts of Tbilisi on November 21-22, which saw three suspects killed, Islamic State terrorist Ahmed Chatayev among them, one suspect detained, one special unit serviceman killed and four others wounded.
The Security Service says Chatayev’s group planned terrorist attacks on diplomats in Georgia and Turkey.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has opened today’s governmental meeting by speaking about the death of the terrorism suspect Temirlan Machalikashvili, who died early yesterday due to a head injury he received during an anti-terrorist raid on December 26.Kvirikashvili expressed respect for Georgia’s Kist population, of which Machalikashvili was a member, and offered his condolences to the family.
The suspected terrorists killed in the Tbilisi counter-terrorist operation on November 22 were planning to attack diplomatic missions in Georgia and Turkey, says the Georgian State Security Service. The Service revealed the results of the ongoing investigation this afternoon.
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) has confirmed that one of the three killed suspects in the Tbilisi counter-terrorist operation on November 22 is an Islamic State-linked, Russia citizen of Chechen origin, Ahmed Chataev. SSS stated that two suspects were killed by Georgian law enforcers, while "Chataev exploded himself.”
The State Security Service of Georgia announced a short time ago that the special operation to arrest suspected terrorists in Tbilisi has officially ended. The officer from the Special Operations Forces, who wounded during the operation, died in hospital.
Six terrorism suspects, who were detained before, during or after the 2017 large-scale counter terrorism raids in Tbilisi and Pankisi, have been found guilty by Tbilisi City Court today.
Terrorists say that they will take revenge for the deaths of members of their organisation who were killed by Georgian law enforcers during last year’s anti-terrorist raid in Tbilisi. A Georgian unit of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation has threatened the Georgian government, saying they will take revenge for their "murdered brothers,” Georgian media Palitranews released the video today.
One Georgian and nine Syrian nationals have been detained for having contacts with the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS), Dailysabah reports.
A Georgian citizen wanted by an Interpol red notice on terrorism charges has been extradited from Ukraine to Georgia. The Georgian State Security Service reported earlier today that the Ukrainian security forces detained Tsezar Tokhosashvili, known as Al-bara Shishani, in Kiev on November 12, 2019 on charges of ‘participation in a terrorist organisation’.