Findings from Document Study

As a result of the study of these documents, it was established that in the listed documents there is no mention or reference to:

• any means of operational-search activity;
• any methods of operational-search activity of the FSB RF bodies;
• any plans of operational-search activity of the FSB RF;
• the state of operational-search activity of the FSB RF.

One can only see in them the results of the operational-search activity of the senior consultant of the 3rd department of the USB [Internal Security Directorate] of the FSB RF, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Trepashkin for the period from June 23 to July 28, 1995, from which it is evident:

• that OPU [Operational-Search Directorate] FSB RF officers, for money and with the knowledge of their leadership, accompanied specific cargo for members of one of the criminal groups in Yaroslavl, for which they received 4,000 US dollars;
• that OPU FSB RF officers helped members of the Golyanovskaya criminal group in Moscow collect compromising material on businessmen, for which they received 100 dollars per hour (conducted surveillance);
• that one of the OPU FSB RF officers purchased and sold drugs, as well as documents for the legalization of carrying weapons by members of the Golyanovskaya OPG [Organized Criminal Group];
• that OPU FSB RF officers took part in the murders of people.

In addition, in summary No. 29 there is data about a Chechen, Dargiev, associated with the criminal activity of the Golyanovskaya OPG. (Presumably, Dargiev was involved in the preparation of the terrorist attack in 'Nord-Ost' in October 2002.)

I intended in 1995-1996 together with RUOP [Regional Directorate for Combating Organized Crime] to conduct an operation to catch OPU FSB RF officers red-handed at the moment when they would be handing over weapons for the commission of murders. However, after my report to the head of the 3rd department of the USB FSB RF, Colonel Baldin V.V.