22-year-old man arrested on the murder case in Zugdidi to be officially charged today. Police detained R.P. (DoB 1998) yesterday, January, 17. Committed crime envisages from 7 to 15 years of imprisonment.

Investigation established that in Zugdidi, after the conflict based on vengeance, detainee inflicted lethal injuries to a man born in 1983 with a cold steel. After the incident, in order to conceal the traces of crime, detainee set fire to the crime place and fled.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs received report on fire in one of the residential buildings located in Zugdidi. Law enforcers who arrived at the site found V.V. (DoB 1983) who was already dead.

As a result of immediate investigative and operative activities, the offender was taken under arrest several hours later after the crime. The weapon of crime- knife was seized as evidence. Detainee has already pleaded guilty.