
Brother of former OMON chief in Ingushetia sentenced to 8 years in prison for murder
Kharon Toldiev stabbed a man in the throat in a fight outside a restaurant.
Kharon Toldiev stabbed a man in the throat in a fight outside a restaurant.
Simon Leviev was the subject of a popular 2022 Netflix documentary and is thought to have scammed as much as $1 billion through various schemes.
Anastasia Zinovkina and Artem Gribul were active in the protests against Georgian Dream and believe the drugs were planted on them.
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) said investigators were ‘considering’ connections between the arrests and the upcoming municipal elections.
Two of former Georgian Defence Minister Juansher Burchuladze’s subordinates, as well as a ‘close relative’, were detained in the same case in July.
It took the police more than two weeks to apprehend the man, who fled the scene after attempting to evade a road patrol.
The attacker, Lasha Baslandze, was reportedly in a financial dispute with restaurant owner Zurab Tibua.