Testimony Transcript

• Rank of either senior lieutenant or captain. During the conversation with him, he said that he works in the GAI (traffic police), located not far from the post through which we entered. Additionally, I want to note that his front upper teeth are gold, but this is not certain. In a personal meeting or from a photograph, I can identify this person.

Questions and Answers

Question: Testify in detail about the circumstances of the acquisition of cellular phones in July – August 1999?

Answer: In total, two phones were acquired. Yoska (Yusuf Krymshamkhalov) acquired them, but I was present during this. I do not know in whose name the phones were registered, but I was then issued a power of attorney to carry the phone in the name of the owner. I took the first purchased phone to Chechnya and handed it over to Abu Umar (later, after the explosions, I used this phone to call my wife Zemfira), and the second phone remained with me.

Question: The investigation has materials indicating that you and Krymshamkhalov purchased three phones. What can you testify in connection with this?

Answer: Yoska and I purchased two phones, which I testified about above. Perhaps Yoska bought the third phone with someone else.

Question: During interrogations, your wife – Zemfira Magomedovna Dekkusheva – testified that on September 9 and 10, 1999, during telephone conversations with her, you inquired whether anyone from law enforcement agencies was looking for you. Explain why you asked these questions?

Answer: It is possible that I made these calls from Volgodonsk, when Gochiyayev's photograph was shown on television and it was announced that he was involved in the apartment bombings in the city of Moscow. I arrived in this city in a "Moskvich" earlier.

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