TBILISI. Aug 7 (Interfax-AVN) - Georgian law-enforcement agencies have failed to trace the whereabouts of Russian Colonel Igor Zaitsev who went missing in Tbilisi on July 27.
"Various versions are under consideration, including a possibility of the Russian colonel's abduction," Georgy Nebieridze, police chief in Tbilisi's Vake-Saburtali district, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
The police are identifying corpses found in the country in the past few days, but none of them bears any resemblance to the missing officer, Nebieridze said.
The headquarters of the Russian troops group in the Trans- Caucasus told Interfax-AVN they had obtained no new data on the colonel.
Zaitsev represents the administration of the Russian government's envoy and command of the Russian Armed Forces in the Russian troops group in the Trans-Caucasus. An investigation team of the Vake-Saburtali district police department is searching for the officer.