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DECREE

on declaring a search for the accused

City of Moscow November 19, 1999

Deputy Head of the 3rd Department of the Investigative Directorate of the FSB of Russia, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Chaika M.I., having reviewed the materials of criminal case No. 103 regarding Dekkushev A.O. and others, -

HAS ESTABLISHED:

• In the course of the investigation of this case, sufficient evidence has been collected that Adam Osmanovich Dekkushev, in August-September 1999, acting as part of an organized criminal group that planned to commit a series of acts of terrorism in the city of Moscow, together with Gochiyayev A.Sh., Saitakov D.F., Krymshamkhalov Yu.I., Batchayev T.A., and a number of other persons, delivered by motor transport from the territory of the North Caucasus and placed in non-residential premises in the city of Moscow at the addresses: Borisovskie Prudy St., house No. 16 bldg. 2 and Krasnodarskaya St., house No. 70, about 12 tons of clandestinely manufactured explosive substances with means of detonation.
• After which, during September 7-8 of the same year, Dekkushev, with the help of the same accomplices, transported two batches of explosives from the specified warehouses to the selected locations of the planned acts of terrorism in non-residential premises rented for this purpose in houses No. 19 on Guryanova St. and No. 6, bldg. 3 on Kashirskoye Highway.
• On September 8 and 13, 1999, using the specified explosive devices, Dekkushev, together with Gochiyayev, Saitakov, Krymshamkhalov, Batchayev, and other accomplices of the group, carried out the explosions of these two apartment buildings along with the citizens living in them, as a result of which 223 people died, more than 150 residents received injuries of varying degrees of severity, and the houses were destroyed.
• Regarding Dekkushev A.O., on November 19, 1999, a decree was issued to charge him as an accused in 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, and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen.