Former deputy security minister Temur Khachishvili, sacked Saturday along with his boss Igor Georgadze, was held along with Giga Gelashvili, a senior member of the Mkhedrioni paramilitary group. The ministry said Sunday the arrests were not connected directly to the bomb blast which injured Shevardnadze last week, but to an attack last April in the industrial town of Rustavi.
Police also arrested the head of the Mkhedrioni in Rustavi and a Tbilisi police official named Elgudzha Ordzhonikidze as part of the crackdown against the paramilitary group.
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