Terrorist Plot Details

Unidentified persons were to acquire and manufacture an improvised explosive substance, other necessary components for the manufacture of explosive devices, as well as organize their delivery to the planned locations for the commission of acts of terrorism in the cities of Moscow and Volgodonsk, Rostov Region. After that, using the said explosive substance and other components of explosive devices, Gochiyayev A.Sh., Batchaev Z.A., Saitakov D.F., Abaev Kh.M. and unidentified persons were to carry out terrorist acts in the city of Moscow, and Dekkushev A.O., Krymshamkhalov Yu.I. and Batchaev T.A. – in the city of Volgodonsk.

Acquisition of Materials

Implementing the plans of the organized criminal group, Dekkushev A.O. in July - early August 1999, both independently and together with Krymshamkhalov Yu.I., Gochiyayev A.Sh., Batchaev T.A., Batchaev Z.A., Saitakov D.F., Abaev Kh.M., Tsokiev M.D. and unidentified persons, acquired:

• Over 1 ton of aluminum powder, about 7 tons of granulated sugar and about 2 tons of potatoes, acquired in the city of Volgograd and on the territory of the North Caucasus region, intended for masking the manufactured explosive substance during its transportation.
• 280 bags for packaging the manufactured explosive substance.
• Over 13 electric detonators (ED-8Zh, EDKZ and ED-3-ZN).
• More than 2.5 meters (over 11.5 kg) of detonating cable of the DKRP-4 charge for UZP-72 (UZP-77) mine-clearing installations.
• More than 30 meters of DShE-12 detonating cord.
• Over 6 electric delayed-action fuses with electronic timers, illegally manufactured.
• A large number of "Energizer" electric batteries.

For the same purposes, Abaev Kh.M. and an unidentified person known to the investigation as "Saleh", in July-early August 1999 on the territory of the North Caucasus region illegally acquired about 13 tons of improvised mixed explosive substance, manufactured under circumstances not clarified by the investigation and consisting of ammonium nitrate, TNT and sugar.

In addition, at the same time Dekkushev A.O. and Krymshamkhalov Yu.I. rented a premises for performing work on the manufacture and packaging of the explosive substance, a concrete mixer for mixing components during the manufacture of the explosive substance and a machine for sewing bags with the explosive substance.

Further Actions

In the first half of August 1999, Dekkushev A.O., Krymshamkhalov Yu.I., Batchaev T.A., Batchaev Z.A., Saitakov D.F., Abaev Kh.M., Tsokiev M.D. and unidentified persons, implementing the plan of the organized group, in a specially rented premises of outbuildings of house No. 28 on Vysokogornaya St. in the settlement of Mir-