The Tbilisi City Court ruled a 4 year prison sentence for Russian citizen Magomed Gutsiev in connection with the alleged murder plot against journalist Giorgi Gabunia.

Court found Gutsiev guilty of all charges - forging and using identification documents (Article 362), illegally crossing Georgia’s border (Article 344 CC), stalking (Article 151’1 CC), unlawful obtaining, storage, use, dissemination of or otherwise making available personal information or data (Article 157 CC).

Georgia’s State Security Service arrested Gutsiev in June 2020, after he had repeatedly crossed the Georgian state border illegally, with a falsified passport under an alias of Vasambek Bokov. He carried out “systematic surveillance” over Gabunia and obtained information about him.