Secret services thwarted plot to kill TV host who attacked Putin, Georgia says

Chechen leader and Moscow deny sending hitman after journalist's expletive-laden TV tirade

Georgia has thwarted a plot to assassinate a journalist who made an expletive-laden attack on Vladimir Putin on live television last year, the Georgian prime minister said.

Georgian secret services have foiled a very serious crime," Giorgi Gakharia told journalists on Tuesday.