GEORGIAN ALLEGED COUP PLOTTER ARRESTED AT ARMENIAN BORDER POINT
By Helena Bedwell
Georgian Daily
Feb 20 2012
Georgia
Georgian police said they have detained a suspect who is on the wanted
list for plotting to overthrow the government in 2008.
Valery Ghelbakhiani, a member of parliament and head of Badri
Patarkatsishvili’s presidential campaign, was charged with plotting
a coup and a “terrorist attack” on a government official, the
police said in a statement their website. He attempted to cross the
Armenian-Georgian border when he was apprehended, according to the
statement.
Christian Democrat leader Giorgi Targamadze condemned the arrest
and said at a news conference in Tbilisi today that Ghelbakhiani was
returning to Georgia to visit his ill mother in the hospital.
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