TBILISI. Dec 1 (Interfax-AVN) - Officers of the Georgian Interior Ministry's counter-intelligence service have detained a resident of the breakaway province of South Ossetia on charges of espionage, a ministry spokesman said on Friday.
"Kakha Bagauri, also known as Kakha Badayev, was recruited by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in Tskhinvali in 2005, the spokesman said.
The suspect confessed that he had passed "various documents regarding the combat capability of the Georgian army and strategic facilities in the Tskhinvali region and outside Tbilisi" to the officer who had recruited him, he said.
The man also admitted to "receiving an order two months ago to recruit Chechens in the Pankisi Gorge to stage terrorist attacks on the territory of South Ossetia," the spokesman said.