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To the Deputy of the State Duma of the Parliament of the Russian Federation, S.A. Kovalyov
from: Isaev Akhmed Saidovich, residing at: Moscow, Nagatinskaya St., 24, apt. 33.

Statement

On August 8, 2000, shortly after the explosion at Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, around 8:00 PM, people in masks and camouflage uniforms unexpectedly raided my workplace, a workshop located at 21 Bolotnikovskaya St. They ordered me and other employees present at the enterprise to lie on the floor face down. At the same time, they began to strike everyone indiscriminately with their hands and feet. Having put us face down on the floor, they began to interrogate us and search the premises. I do not know what they were looking for, but they asked where the explosives and plastic [explosive] were located. I did not see how the search was conducted. We explained that this is a fish processing workshop and such things have never been and are never here.
After some time, people in civilian clothes picked me up from the floor, sat me on a chair, put my hands behind my back, put handcuffs on me, and began to question me about the workshop employees. I pointed out to them all the workshop employees lying on the floor. One of the employees in civilian clothes asked me: "Where is Abdula?", to which I replied that he had gone to the ZhEK [housing maintenance office] at his place of registration to get his passport, as I had promised to give him a job as a general laborer.