Appendix 42

Volume 67
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RESOLUTION

on bringing as an accused

Moscow, April 18, 2003
(place of drafting)

Investigator (inquirer) Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases of the Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Senior Counselor of Justice Zipunnikov I.I., having reviewed the materials of criminal case No. 18/230300-02,

HAS ESTABLISHED:

• On December 7, 2002, Yusuf Ibragimovich Krymshamkhalov was charged with terrorism and the illegal acquisition, storage, and transportation of explosives and explosive devices, that is, with committing crimes provided for by Part 3 of Article 205 and Part 3 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in connection with the bombings of residential buildings in Moscow on September 8 and 13, 1999.
• Currently, sufficient evidence has been collected in the criminal case to provide grounds for amending and supplementing the charge previously brought against Yu.I. Krymshamkhalov and bringing a new charge against him in the following wording:

In July 1999, the leaders of the illegal armed formation (IAF) Islamic Institute "Caucasus," which operated in the Chechen Republic, foreign citizens Emir Al-Khattab and Abu Umar, created an organized group on the territory of the North Caucasian subjects of the Russian Federation, which included members of the above-named IAF: Dekkushev A.O., Gochiyaev A.Sh., Batchaev T.A., Batchaev Z.A., Saitakov D.F., Abaev Kh.M., and Tsokiev M.D., as well as a resident of the settlement of Mirny, Predgorny District, Stavropol Krai, Krymshamkhalov Yu.I., and several persons not identified by the investigation. The plans of this organized group included the commission of a series of acts of terrorism on the territory of the Russian Federation — the carrying out of explosions in populated areas, aimed at mass loss of life and, thereby, the violation of public safety, intimidation of the population, and exerting influence on decision-making by government bodies regarding the elimination of the consequences of...