One of the defendants in the case involving the attempt to blow up the Russian-Armenian gas pipeline in Georgia was waiting for $50,000 USD to be transferred to his account, presumably from Turkey, Kviris Palitra newspaper reports, citing the testimonies given by the Georgian state security service informant.

The defendant was Beka Bekauri, Sputnik-Georgia reports.

On August 22, the Georgian state security service informed about disclosing the case into the terrorist act plotting and arrest of seven people, including a patrol police officer. The detainees were going to blow up the Russia-Armenia natural gas pipeline that passes through Saguramo village. All of them are currently in a preliminary detention cell.

“During the conversation, I asked him whose task he was carrying out and who funded him. Bekauri answered indistinctly, only specifying that he was waiting for $50,000 USD from abroad. Then he had a slip of the tongue, saying that the amount was to be transferred presumably from the Turkish Republic. Bekauri didn’t say precisely who the order came from ,” the newspaper writes, citing the informant.

Source: news.am