Appeal

Moscow
February 14, 2004.

From my defense attorney N.V. Gorokhov, I learned that the Public Commission is currently preparing a report on the work performed.
Since I was involved in the work of the Public Commission on certain issues, I would ask that the following circumstances be taken into account in the report, in addition to known facts:

• In the summer of 2002, the FSB of the RF knew the exact location of A. Gochiyayev and there was a real opportunity to detain and arrest him in order to interrogate him regarding all the circumstances of the bombings and Gochiyayev's own actions under Interpol control and with a guarantee of preserving Gochiyayev's life until trial. I was informed of such an opportunity for the FSB of the RF. V.V. Shebalin, a former employee of the URPO FSB RF and an associate of A. Litvinenko, who is in London, was supposed to participate in the action on behalf of the FSB RF.
• FSB RF employees established contact with V. Shebalin and concluded a written cooperation contract, considering that he is a retired FSB RF colonel and an agent of the USB FRB RF (according to his own words). However, in September 2002, the operation to detain Gochiyayev was abandoned, stating that he was needed dead. This was explained to me by Shebalin, expressing the position of the FSB RF. By this time, criminal cases against Krymshankhalov and Dekkushev were already being prepared for transfer to court, with whom some...