The Georgian police arrested on December 6 chief of the breakaway South Ossetia’s Akhalgori (Leningori) district administration and three other officials from the same administration, the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported.

The Georgian side has confirmed the detention of four Ossetian officials, but no motives behind this arrest have been reported yet.

According to the South Ossetian reports, four men were arrested while driving from the Akhalgori district, which in South Ossetia is known as Leningori, in the direction of the breakaway region’s capital Tskhinvali. The South Ossetian Press and Information Committee has described this detention as “an abduction.”