I have repeatedly seen him in Chechnya and in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia bringing bags (I do not remember the exact number) with a component of dry paint, which we were going to manufacture.
Dekkushev brought paint—'serebryanka' [aluminum powder], packed in metal barrels about 70 cm high.
After transport and before moving it to Karabasheva's house, it was stored in the garage in the yard of the household where I lived.
Mixing and Packaging
These components were mixed by the Batchaevs, Moaz, and Saitakov (Hakim Abaev also helped them sometimes) using a concrete mixer.
They packed the resulting mixture first into cellophane and then into jute bags, which Dekkushev and I purchased in the village of Erken-Shakhar, where a sugar factory is located, from a random person unknown to me.
The bags were sewn with a sewing machine, which Dekkushev and I took for a few days in the village of Vinsady, near which there is a grain storage facility.
A person unknown to me gave us the machine, whom I would recognize upon meeting.
I want to note that at first he gave us a faulty machine (it could not be repaired), and then he gave us a working one (subsequently we returned it).
Disguising the Paint
Also in Erken-Shakhar, Dekkushev and I purchased sugar in an amount of about 5 or 7 tons.
We needed the sugar in order to disguise the manufactured dry paint during transportation, since our workshop was unregistered and there were no necessary documents for the paint.
For the same purpose, tags were sewn onto the bags of paint, according to which sugar was packed in the bags.
These tags were made using a stamp that Dekkushev and I ordered from a private craftsman in Kislovodsk.
Final Storage
Thus, a total of about 15 tons of the mixture was manufactured; all the bags were stored in Karabasheva's shed.
When they no longer fit, some of the bags were loaded onto Ruslan Magayaev's KAMAZ (I made the arrangements with him, since he was...