DECREE on the appointment of a complex forensic examination

Moscow
“18” July 2002

Investigator (inquirer) Senior Investigator of the Investigative Department of the FSB of Russia, Captain of Justice Romanovsky V.V.

having reviewed the materials of criminal case No. 103

HAS ESTABLISHED:

• Adam Osmanovich Dekkushev has been charged with the commission, as part of an organized group, of 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 the commission, as part of an organized group, of the illegal acquisition, storage, and transportation of explosives and explosive devices, i.e., the commission of crimes provided for by Part 3 of Art. 205 and Part 3 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
• Regarding the charges brought against him, A.O. Dekkushev pleaded fully guilty and testified that in the summer of 1999, while on the territory of Chechnya, he received instructions from the leaders of illegal armed groups (IAG) Khattab and Abu Umar to purchase aluminum powder in Volgograd, which he did, delivering it to the settlement of Mirny near Kislovodsk. He also delivered sugar bags he had purchased in the settlement of Erken-Shakhar to the same location. Later, using a concrete mixer, aluminum powder and ammonium nitrate were mixed, resulting in the production of an explosive substance (BB). Part of the explosives, packed in the purchased sugar bags, was delivered to Moscow, where it was used to blow up residential buildings in September 1999.
• The remaining explosives (about 5 tons) were delivered by A.O. Dekkushev, along with T. Batchayev and Yu. Krymshamkhalov, on the instructions of Abu Umar, by a KAMAZ truck to