Two employees of militia department arrested for murder of Temur Karbaia in occupied Gali, third employee is wanted

A criminal case was initiated against three employees of the militia department, two of them were arrested, on the fact of the murder of Temur Karbaia, a citizen of Georgia in occupied Abkhazia, the so-called prosecutor's office of occupied Abkhazia reports.

The case against Albert Zarakua, Vianor Abshilava and Davit Kvekveskiri has been initiated under two articles of the criminal law code - on charges of group intentional infliction of severe bodily harm and abuse of official authority using violence.

According to the version of the prosecutor's office, on December 6, 2023, Davit Kvekveskiri brought drunken Karbaia to the so-called police station of Gali, where he conducted an illegal search without witnesses.

“At the end of the search, Karbaia started using obscene words towards Kvekveskiri, as a result of which Kvekveskiri hit him. At the same time, Zarakua and Abshilava entered the department, who, together with Kvekveskiri, used physical violence against Karbaia by hitting different parts of his body with, as a result of which Karbaia received injuries in the heart and chest, four ribs were broken, and he had bruises on the upper and lower eyelids of the right eye”, - the so-called prosecutor's office of occupied Abkhazia reports.

After the beating, Karbaia was taken to a temporary detention center without legal grounds, from which he was released on December 7.

Before that, the so-called ministry of internal affairs of occupied Abkhazia announced that Karbaia died on December 9 in the Sokhumi hospital, where he was transferred from the Gali hospital the day before "due to deterioration of his health".

According to the prosecutor's office, on February 10, employees of the Gali department of the so-called ministry of internal affairs, Zarakua and Abshilava, were arrested.

"Suspect Kvekveskiri D.B. did not show up, his whereabouts are unknown," the so-called prosecutor's office said.