Vazha Khachapuridze was detained today near the village of Ergneti, in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone.
Khachapuridze is a close aide to South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity.
Also today, the South Ossetian leadership said in a statement that Georgian counterintelligence officers briefly detained Deputy Interior Minister Khazbi Guliyev on March 31. The incident took place near the Georgian town of Khashuri, where Guliyev was reportedly on a mission agreed upon with regional police.
South Ossetia forcibly won de facto independence from Georgia in the early 1990s.
(Civil Georgia, Novosti-Gruziya, Imedi TV)