The vehicle with Ukrainian license plates entered Georgia from Turkey.
According to Georgia’s State Security Service, the explosive was brought to Georgia earlier from Ukraine via Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. One of the detained men then retrieved the RDX from hidden caches inside Georgia.
Searches of the suspects yielded eight mobile phones, computers, electronic storage devices, cash, multiple SIM cards, and a quantity of cocaine. Georgian prosecutors have charged both men with illegal acquisition; storage; and transportation of explosives, and with drug offenses.
The security service is probing whether the suspects planned a terrorist attack in Georgia or were using the country as a transit route.
RDX (also known as hexogen) is a powerful industrial explosive commonly used in commercial blasting and to fill certain types of munitions.