Interior Ministry Says it 'Foiled Terror Plot'

The Interior Ministry said on June 13 that its counter-terrorism center “has thwarted an attempted terrorist act at its stage of preparation” and arrested on Thursday morning two “foreign citizens” in Tbilisi.

Two arrested men have been identified by the Interior Ministry as Mikail Kadiev and Rizvan Omarov.

A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry has declined to specify citizens of which country the two men are.

Police recovered “large amount of powerful explosive material”, electric detonators, firearm and munitions, as well as fake identification documents from a Tbilisi apartment the two men lived in, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

In a video footage released by the Interior Ministry, showing arrest of the two men, two passports of the Russian Federation are also seen.

“At this stage of the investigation it has been incontrovertibly established that Kadiev, has been hiding on the territory of Georgia from Interpol since 2011; he, however, used to leave the country occasionally,” the Interior Ministry said.

The Interior Ministry said that these measure were carried out both within the country and “in frames of international anti-terrorism cooperation, because an accomplice of a crime, committed by Mikail Kadiev in one of the foreign country’s territory, was arrested in one of the western European states in 2012.”

The Interior Ministry’s statement does not say anything about what the potential target of “attempted terrorist act” was.

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