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Russia’s Fishers Accused in Georgia
Georgia has brought charges against sailors of two seine vessels that its war ships stopped near Abkhazia’s cost. The sailors are accused of illegal frontier crossing, RIA Novosti reported. Among the detained are eight citizens of the RF and ten Ukrainians.
The sailors are kept in an investigatory isolation cell of Poti-town, Georgia, said Valery Vasiliev, chief of the consular department of the RF Embassy in Georgia. They have a state lawyer and an interpreter.
The trial could be held already January 13. The measure of restraint will be chosen on the same day. Georgian border police insists on two-month preliminary confinement for the Russians and the Ukrainians, News-Georgia reported.
Russia’s Grot seine vessel that is registered in Novorossiisk and Sevastopol-registered Savol-2 of Ukraine were seized January 10 in Abkhazia’s section of the marginal waters of Georgia. The vessels were caught in the waters closed for ships, where they were poaching, said Badri Bitsadze, who is the chief of Georgia’s border police.
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