Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested an alleged Georgian spy in the Southern federal district, news agencies reported on Friday.
"The agent is an ethnic Chechen, Ramzan Turkoshvili, born in Georgia in 1974," the Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified official from the FSB as saying.
Turkoshvili, who has been living in Chechnya, confessed to having worked for the Georgian secret services, said the official, noting that the exposure of the Georgian spy is "confirmation that Georgian secret services are engaged in disruptive terrorist activities in the North Caucasus."
The spy was receiving pay cash in dollars at personal meetings or through the Western Union money transfer system, the report said.
According to police intelligence data, Turkoshvili was to establish contact between Georgian secret services and active members of illegal armed groups in Russia.
He was also tasked to establish contacts with Russian Interior Ministry's traffic police officers to guarantee unimpeded travel of gunmen in the Southern federal district.
However, Georgian Interior Ministry denied Russia's claims of capturing a Georgian spy, saying Georgia has nothing to do with the accusation.
The claims are "provocative actions" aiming to destroy Georgia's policies and fuel tensions between Georgia and Russia, said Shota Utiashvili, spokesman for the ministry.
Tensions between Russia and Georgia have been escalating as Tbilisi accused Moscow of supporting Georgia's two breakaway regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and blocking Georgia's bid for NATO membership.
Source: Xinhua
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