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A one-minute recording of an interview with Achimez Gochiyayev is dated August 20, 2002. Of course, it does not follow from this that the recording was made on that day. The calmness of Achimez Gochiyayev, who is hunted day and night by Russian special services, is surprising. One gets the impression that Achimez Gochiyayev is giving the interview not from Georgia, but from some other country. However, these are only assumptions.

We would consider this stage of work completed if we were able to obtain the recording and find out who is hiding behind "K." and "Kh.". Former FSB investigator, colonel, now lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin recently discovered that since 1996 (as recorded in the Moscow Registration Chamber), another person was a co-founder of the "Kapstroy-2000" firm, which rented the ill-fated basements in Moscow, along with Achimez Gochiyayev – Alexander Yuryevich Karmishin. All this led Mark Ulensh, editor of the Somnenie.Narod.Ru website, who works closely with the Public Commission, to the idea that it is Alexander Yuryevich Karmishin who is the mysterious "K.". It is not difficult to check whether a person named Karmishin works in the Cherkessk FSB. It is more difficult to answer the question of why the investigative bodies of Russia are silent.

Achimez Gochiyayev was accused of involvement in the September terrorist attacks only on the basis that basements of the bombed houses were rented by him and in his name. Meanwhile, the co-founder of his firm, whose existence is known to both the investigative bodies and the FSB, is not only not accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks, but is not even named. We do not call for rushing with accusations. We demand that the public be informed who Alexander Yuryevich Karmishin is, whether he is related to the FSB or other Russian security agencies, where he is currently located, and why he was not declared a suspect in involvement in the apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999.

The full transcript of Achimez Gochiyayev's interview is published on the TERROR-99 website.