The city court of Tbilisi sentenced to two months of preliminary imprisonment on Monday Alexander Chumburidze, a Georgian citizen, who, according to the law enforcement agencies, planned to blow up the office of the ruling United National Movement Party. The court passed judgement on the basis of the application of the Tbilisi prosecutor’s office, rejecting at the same time the application of his lawyer on releasing Chumburidze on bail amounting to 10,000 lari (5,700 dollars). Alexander Chumburidze was arrested on September 8 on charges of “the intention to stage an explosion in the office of the United National Movement Party.” Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said on September 9 that “400 grams of TNT and a home-made explosive liquid in a bottle were confiscated from him during his arrest.” “We had information about the intentions of Chumburidze. This is why our anti-terrorist centre kept him under observation over the past few days. We have audio materials, which feature him talking about his intentions, as well a video materials, showing him purchase the explosives,” he added. According to Merabishvili, “Chumburidze served in the Georgian security service, in the Alpha special task group, in 1993-1995, i.e. at the time when it was headed by Igor Georgadze.” He said that during the past few years Chumburidze had been a member of the Justice Party (of which Igor Georgadze is the leader) and had closely cooperated with the United Communist Party of Georgia, headed by Panteleimon Georgadze, who is the father of Igor Georgadze. (Itar-Tass)