RESOLUTION

on the appointment of a comprehensive forensic examination

Moscow
July 18, 2002

[... department]
[... or inquiry]

Adam Osmanovich Dekkushev has been charged with committing, as part of an organized group, the bombings of two residential buildings in Moscow, which caused significant property damage and resulted in the deaths of a large number of people, as well as committing, as part of an organized group, the illegal acquisition, storage, and transportation of explosives and explosive devices, that is, committing crimes provided for by Part 3 of Art. 205 and Part 3 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

In the charges brought against him, Dekkushev A.O. pleaded guilty in full and testified that in the summer of 1999, while on the territory of Chechnya, he received instructions from the leaders of illegal armed groups (IAF) Khattab and Abu Umar to purchase aluminum powder in the city of Volgograd, which he did, delivering it to the settlement of Mirny near the city of Kislovodsk. He also delivered sugar bags purchased by him in the settlement of Erken-Shakhar there. Later, using a concrete mixer, aluminum powder and ammonium nitrate were mixed, resulting in the manufacture of an explosive substance (ES). Part of the ES, packed in the purchased sugar bags, was delivered to Moscow, where with its help residential buildings were blown up in September 1999.

The remaining ES (about 5 tons) Dekkushev A.O., together with Batchaev T. and Krymshamkhalov Yu., on the instructions of Abu Umar, delivered by KAMAZ truck to