Georgian officials dismiss Moscow’s claims over passing explosives for Crimea bridge blast

Georgian officials on Wednesday dismissed Moscow’s claims as “unfounded”  that said that more than 22,770 kg of explosives for the Crimea bridge blast had been transported from Ukraine to Crimea via Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia, with two Georgian citizens also involved to facilitate the transportation process along with Russians, Ukraiians and Armeians. 

Georgian Deputy Finance Minister Giorgi Kakauridze said that he knew “for sure” that no such cargo had crossed the Georgian border and said that if Russia presented any evidence, Tbilisi would investigate the claims. 

The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Aleksandre Darakhvelidze, stated that “Georgian has nothing to do with the mentioned issue”. 

“Georgia has nothing to do with the mentioned issue, both transit and non-transit cargoes go through customs control in Georgia, and no such suspicious fact has been observed”, he said. 

The Russian federal security service on Wednesday said it had arrested five citizens of Russia and three Ukrainian and Armenian citzens as part of its investigation into what president Vladimir Putin has called a “terrorist attack”.

It claimed accomplices to the act, which included two Georgian citizens named Sandro Inosaridze and a broker only named through his first name Levan, had also been identified.