25 May 2009, 23:00
Georgian Prosecutor's Office investigates police actions at detaining persons accused of a riot in Mukhrovani
The Prosecutor's Office in Tbilisi has started a check on the fact of excess of power by policemen in the course of May 20 special operation to detain Giya Krialashvili, Koba Otanadze and Levan Amiridze, the persons accused of taking part in the riot at Mukhrovan military unit. This has been reported by Onice Meboniya, Otanadze's lawyer.
The "Caucasian Knot" reported earlier that during the night of May 21, in the course of a special operation, Giya Krialashvili, former commander of "Delta" special-purpose detachment, one of the accused in organizing a mutiny on May 5 in the Mukhrovani military unit of the Ministry of Defense, was killed and two more, Levan Amiridze and Koba Otanadze, wanted on the case, were wounded.
According to lawyer Onice Meboniya, his defendant Otanadze who is under treatment at the hospital claims that neither he nor Amiridze put up any resistance to the police because they had no arms. Otanadze claims that Giya Krialashvili was not with them in the mini-bus where they were detained, reports "Interfax".
Meanwhile, according to the official case of the Georgian MoI, in the course of the special operation, the three wanted officers jumped out of the fixed-run taxi bus and opened fire on the policemen. The lawyer insists that the MoI story is no good at all because no arms were confiscated from the detainees in the course of the special operation, notes "NEWSru.com".
