The former first deputy chairman of the committee, Major General Vladimir Khubaev, and the deputy head of the department, Vasily Guliyev, were sent to early retirement because they too clearly “filtered” the elections in favor of ex-president Anatoly Bibilov. Because of this, they passed with an unprecedented number of violations. Over the course of five years, the service became the “spinal cord” of a corrupt management system. For the KGB and for the entire society in South Ossetia, the last five years will also be remembered for a number of extremely unpleasant image losses.
Several unprecedented scandals erupted around the state security agencies:
as a result of detention by KGB officers and after many hours of interrogation, Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili died (according to the official version, from heart failure); for this death, two secret service officers were subsequently sentenced in absentia and for life by a Georgian court; 30-year-old citizen of South Ossetia Inal Dzhabiev, who died as a result of torture by criminal police officers, was immediately taken to a KGB special institution after his arrest;
Another circumstance came up quite often – the illegal arrest of the former Minister of Communications Georgy Kabisov, who was “developed” by the KGB on a “special order” from ex-President Anatoly Bibilov. Kabisov was recently released early after serving five years out of eight.
The local population still has too many questions about this high-profile case – in fact, there is not even confidence that KGB officers consciously participated in the detention of the ex-minister, who is, among other things, the holder of the highest military award in South Ossetia, “Uatsamonga”.
Considering that in the republic they began to speak unflatteringly about the work of the committee due to the bias of the dismissed deputies, due to the fact that, at the instigation of individual employees of the analytical service, documents were falsified and materials were prepared in which the elected president Alan Gagloev was accused of all mortal sins, and also, for many other reasons, to which they preferred to turn a blind eye. The KGB leadership has little choice; they will have to admit mistakes. So the work of the South Ossetian special service will really have to be improved.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”