YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS. Three out of seven extremists charged with plotting a terror attack on a gas pipeline in Georgia are followers of Wahhabism, “Armenpress” reports, citing Interfax Religion, lawyer Maya Chrelashvili told reporters on Tuesday.

"My client, Beka Bekauri, and two more arrested individuals are Wahhabism followers. They announced it during the investigation. As of the connections with Ukraine, all arrested individuals deny the allegation," she said.

Bekauri is currently in a satisfactory condition following the surgery he underwent, and investigators are interrogating him in hospital at this moment, she said.

Bekauri was one out of seven arrested individuals to give a confession about plotting the gas pipeline explosion.

Late on Monday night the Tbilisi City Court ordered the preliminary arrest of seven men suspected of plotting a terror attack on the gas pipeline.

The State Security Service said on Monday that the men suspected of conspiring to blow up a surface section of the Russian-Armenian gas pipeline near the village of Saguramo, by the Aragvi River, had been detained on August 20. The detainees were accused of conspiracy to commit a terror attack, acquisition, possession and carrying of firearms, ammunition and explosives for terrorism purposes, and aiding and abetting this crime.

"Alongside these individuals, an acting patrol police officer was detained on suspicion of abuse of power and another Georgian national was detained over failure to report the plotted crime," the State Security Service said.

One of the detainees had often traveled to Ukraine but there has been no evidence as of yet that the gang was guided from there, it said.