Interview Transcript Summary

Key Events and Statements

• The individual was eventually handed over to the Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, where MVD officers began working with him.
• Question Posed: "Answer what happened to the person you met with and who allegedly told you everything about the explosions in Moscow and other locations."
• Initial Contact: The interviewee received a letter from the person, but could not meet him the same day. This was twelve hours before the explosion on Guryanova Street.
• Information Flow: Even before the explosion, there was a report regarding the number of bandits who had arrived and their leader, which was immediately passed to the special services.
• Meeting After Explosion: The next day, after the explosion, the person reached out. The interviewee met with him after warning the special services, who were nearby.
• Decision to Hand Over: The interviewee, despite having 27 years of military service and not considering himself an amateur, felt the person must be handed over to law enforcement agencies due to the gravity of the situation.
• Condition Set: The person set a condition that the meeting be held alone. The interviewee declined this, stating he did not have the right to take such responsibility.
• Disappearance: The person was handed over to law enforcement structures and was reportedly working with them. However, the next day, the interviewee was informed that this person had disappeared.
• Uncertainty: The interviewee stated he did not know the definitive answer, only that he was told this by the people to whom the person was handed over and with whom he was staying.

Official Statements

General V. Kozlov (Head of GUOP MVD) - "Echo of Moscow" Radio

• Statement: "We didn't lose this person, we just let him go."
• Observation: He characterized the individual as a "sick man," and the people he pointed out as terrorists turned out to be his hospital neighbors (from the ward on the right and the ward on the left).

V.Ya. Izmailov (Statement dated 18.12.1999)

• Second Handover: The last time Alexander Kapanadze was seen was when he was handed over for the second time to GUBOP, personally into the hands of General Kozlov.
• Current Status: Izmailov stated he did not know where he was now and was not interested.
• First Incident: The first time, they lost him. They gave him a mobile phone and told him to keep in touch, but he slipped away.
• Second Meeting: After the second explosion, he came to Izmailov again, guarded by Igor Bederov and Yura Lizunov.
• Escalation: This time, people from both GUBOP and the FSB arrived. GUBOP did not want to take him, but Izmailov insisted they take him, and he went with them.
• FSB Inquiry: A few days later, people from the FSB visited the editorial office to ask about him, stating he had long been in Moscow engaging in [cut off].

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