Explosive Substance Preparation and Transport

Preparation Details

• The mixture included silver powder.
• Watermelons were piled in the yard to mask the ammonium nitrate brought by Hakim Abaev (these watermelons were later sold at the market).
• The prepared mixture was packed into plastic bags, and then into sugar bags purchased by the narrator, which were sewn up at the top with a stitching machine because the aluminum powder leaked through the loose sugar bag.
• Empty containers from the ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder were taken to a landfill located up the street from Karabasheva's house and set on fire.

Transportation Circumstances

Question: State in detail the circumstances of involving the KAMAZ driver for transporting the manufactured explosive substance from Zukhra Karabasheva's house to the warehouse belonging to Krymshamkhalov's uncle?

Answer:

• Yoska, who lives near him in the village of Mirny, negotiated everything with the KAMAZ driver.
• An agreement was made to pay 100 or 200 rubles for storing the bags in the truck.
• After the agreement, the truck was driven into the yard of Karabasheva's house, where the people who were doing the mixing carried out the loading.
• The narrator does not know if the KAMAZ driver was present during the loading, nor does the narrator remember the time the loading took place.
• The transportation occurred as follows: the driver drove his KAMAZ, and Yoska and the narrator were in a "Moskvich".
• The route to Kislovodsk passed through a GIBDD (traffic police) post.
• Passage was allowed without hindrance due to an acquaintance of Yoska—a GIBDD officer.
• The narrator does not know the name of the GIBDD officer, but describes him as a Russian man about 40 years old.