FORMER ADJAR OFFICIALS ARRESTED
By empty (5/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least five senior Adjar officials have been arrested since the resignation and departure for Moscow on 5 May of Adjar Supreme Council Chairman Aslan Abashidze. Murad Tsintsadze and his son Merab, both of them senior Interior Ministry personnel, were detained in Batumi on 8 May, as was Kobuleti Governor Tariel Khalvashi, the man responsible for barring Saakashvili from entering Adjaria in mid-March. Khalvashi has been charged with persecuting the opposition to Abashidze and illegally distributing weapons to the population.Visit also
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