Georgia, Tbilisi, August 25 / Trend N. Kirtskhalia /
Georgian frontier guards detained former captain of BUKET ship, Azerbaijani citizen Ilgar Imanverdiyev on August 24. He is accused in violation of the law, group entry the occupied territory, Georgian frontier police told Trend .
Georgia states that he repeatedly violated Georgian territorial waters and visited Abkhazia with smuggled freight when he was a captain of the ship operating under Panama flag.
Imanverdiyev was detained at Edirne tanker under a flag of Sierra-Leone in Batumi while passport examining. This tanker was fined by Georgia for water pollution. After paying a fine, it was released.
However, while passport examining ex-captain of BUKET, Imanverdiyev, was detained.
At present, this ship is in Georgian port of Batumi. He is accused of oil products smuggling for Abkhazian separatists.