Didzis Smitins, security police chief, declined to tell reporters what kind of involvement he could have in the case, only saying that he was detained as part of the investigation.
This is not the first time someone has been apprehended as part of the investigation but police have been unable to pin the bombing on anyone.
Police have so far interrogated more than 1,400 people and are currently working on four different theories. The most probable explanation, they believe, is that the bombing was some sort of revenge attack by business competitors. A second theory is that the bombing was due to rivalry between store security companies and the third is that it was an act of terrorism by an extremist group. The usual lone madman theory has also not been excluded.
An unknown group of terrorists calling themselves the Latvian National Liberation Movement assumed responsibility for the blasts earlier this year, but police have not said anything about this group and its possible involvement.
Knut Kvisvik, director of Rimi Latvia, who was rushed to a hospital in Norway for treatment following the blast, told The Baltic Times on an earlier occasion that he had not heard anything about this organization before the Rimi bombing, nor had he heard anything about the organization since.
"Any other information on the bombing should be provided by the police," the Rimi director said.
As the investigation got under way the Latvian police asked U.S. law enforcement agencies for help in analyzing video tapes from the supermarket's security cameras. But there turned out to be no significant clues on the tapes.
The bombing consisted of two blasts a few minutes apart in which more than 30 people were injured. One woman who worked at the store's luggage checkroom was killed.
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