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CASE OF APARTMENT BOMBINGS IN MOSCOW AND VOLGODONSK SOLVED

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has completed the investigation into the case of the apartment building bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999. According to investigators, the case is fully solved: the motive, the main figures, and the mechanism of the crime have been established. However, only two low-level perpetrators who transported explosives from Karachay-Cherkessia to Volgodonsk will stand trial—Adam Dekkushev and Yusuf Krymshamkhalov. The rest are either killed or wanted. Currently, Dekkushev and Krymshamkhalov have already begun reviewing the case materials. Back in a February interview with "Izvestia," Russia's Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov stated that the bombing case was fully solved and all the main figures of this terrible crime had been identified. Furthermore, he promised that if time permitted, he would act as the state prosecutor in this trial.

In the first half of September 1999, Russia was shaken by three terrible explosions. Apartment buildings with sleeping people were blown up in Moscow and Volgodonsk. As a result, 241 people died, and several hundred more were wounded. Russia had not known such an audacious and bloody crime in its entire history.

As an "Izvestia" correspondent managed to find out, the masterminds of this crime were primarily Shamil Basaev and two Arabs, instructors of sabotage camps in Serzhen-Yurt and Urus-Martan—Khattab and Abu Umar, who were killed last year. The direct organizer and perpetrator of the bombings was Achemez Gochiyayev's group, which included Adam Dekkushev, Yusuf Krymshamkhalov, Denis Saitakov, Zaur Batchaev, Khakim and Adim Abaev, and Ravil Akhmyarov. Some terrorists, for example, Saitakov, Akhmyarov, and Batchaev, who set off the "infernal machines" in Moscow, have already been killed; others, specifically Gochiyayev, are on the international wanted list. There is data suggesting he is hiding in Georgia. Dekkushev and Krymshamkhalov were arrested there and brought to "Lefortovo." The former, who prepared the explosive device for Volgodonsk, was a professional demolitions expert. He lived in that city for a long time and personally chose the "victim house." Dekkushev, along with Krymshamkhalov, delivered hexogen from the village of Mirny in Karachay-Cherkessia to Volgodonsk in a "Kamaz" truck. Part of this deadly cargo was later forwarded to the capital.

"The motive for these bombings has also been established by us," a source in the Prosecutor General's Office told "Izvestia." "In August, militants led by Basaev attacked several Dagestani villages bordering Chechnya. Federal forces drove them out, which essentially gave the impetus for the start of a new counter-terrorist operation. By ordering the bombings, Basaev, on the one hand, was taking revenge for fallen 'comrades,' and on the other, wanted to cause confusion. He expected in this way to put pressure on the country's political leadership and stop the Russian military and special services personnel."

However, one cannot completely ignore another version of events voiced by the disgraced entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky. According to his data, the apartment bombings were organized by the FSB. As primary evidence, he cites the testimony of Achimez Gochiyayev, which the latter passed to the businessman through intermediaries. Gochiyayev allegedly claimed that he rented basement premises in Moscow buildings on Guryanova Street, Kashirskoye Highway, Borisovskiye Ponds, and in Kapotnya at the request of his "school acquaintance," who most likely worked for the FSB. According to him, he realized he had been "set up" only after the second apartment building explosion on September 13. Calling...

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