Questions regarding the testimony of Achemez Gochiyayev, provided to the Public Commission on the apartment bombings.
1. Passport Usage and Warehouse Leases
It is unknown why Achemez Gochiyayev, according to FSB data, used a passport issued in the name of citizen Laipanov, who had died by September 1999, when registering the lease of warehouse premises in Moscow.
Possibly, Laipanov's passport was used so that Gochiyayev would not have to register for tax purposes.
However, in his testimony, Gochiyayev says: "Then he told me that he needed premises in the southeast of Moscow, where he supposedly had sales points. I helped him realize [arrange] these premises on Guryanova, on Kashirka, Borisovskie Prudy, and Kapotnya."
Accordingly, he rented the premises not for himself, but for his business partner, whom he now considers an FSB agent. This means Gochiyayev did not need to evade taxes.
Then why did he use someone else's passport? Perhaps this is exactly what his business partner asked of him.
But if he was preparing these explosions, why did he give Gochiyayev a chance to escape after the first explosion using his real documents?
If the business partner was an accomplice, then the question about the passport falls away.
In 1999, the FSB claimed that the warehouses on Kashirskoye Highway and Guryanova Street were rented in Laipanov's name.
On the other hand, it is unlikely that the warehouses could have been rented by a private individual. Most likely, the warehouses were rented by a firm, on whose behalf Gochiyayev concluded contracts using Laipanov's documents.
From whom were the warehouses rented—from the municipal authorities, or was a sub-lease agreement concluded with a commercial firm?
2. Information on "Kapstroy-2000"
It is necessary to obtain all information about the firm "Kapstroy-2000," which belonged to Gochiyayev.
It is necessary to find out the data of those people who were the founders of the firm and had the right to sign.
In whose name was the firm registered—Gochiyayev's or Laipanov's?
The firm, if Gochiyayev's testimony is to be believed, was opened in 1997; Laipanov was still alive then—could Gochiyayev have used his passport then?
This question is one of the important ones, as it will allow us to understand when Gochiyayev received the passport in Laipanov's name.
The founders and responsible employees of the firm "Kapstroy-2000" are important witnesses in the case investigating the bombings.