Ex-minister of Interior Affairs and ex-vice-premier of South Ossetia Djemal Karkusov with his brother businessman Yan Karkusov escaped from prison in Czkhinvali this night. This was reported by Tbilisi TV channels noting that both jail-breakers have already left territory controlled by Czkhinvali authorities. Georgian minister of Interior Affairs Vano Merabishvili commented this occasion: "Czkhinvali police appealed to us with request to close all roads, arrest jail-breakers and hand them South Ossetin side. But I want to stress that both brothers were political convicts and now they are on their motherhood". 405 of South Ossetin territory is controlled by Georgian side, the rest - by Czkhinvali authorities.