RESOLUTION

on bringing [a person] as an accused

City of Moscow, January 8, 2002.

Investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia, Captain of Justice V.A. Ignatiev, having reviewed the materials of criminal case No. 103,

HAS ESTABLISHED:

• In the course of the investigation of this criminal case, sufficient evidence has been obtained to bring charges against a subject of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Abu Al-Walid Al-Ghamidi, that in the first half of 1999 he arrived on the territory of Russia for the purpose of participating on the side of illegal armed formations (IAF) created in the Chechen Republic in combat operations against the federal troops of the Russian Federation.
• Acting in violation of the Federal Law "On Defense" No. 61-FZ dated May 31, 1996, Abu Al-Walid Al-Ghamidi, on his own initiative, established links with individual leaders of Chechen separatist detachments and foreign mercenaries - Khattab, Basayev, Barayev, and Abu Umar, together with whom he created and led illegal armed formations having weaponry, military equipment, and a military organization.
• From the specified time, Abu Al-Walid Al-Ghamidi, being on the territory of the Chechen Republic as part of the IAF, actively participated in the leadership of the activities of illegal armed formations, trained bombers from among the IAF participants, developed plans for terrorist acts, and supplied groups of terrorists with explosives, weapons, and money.
• By the specified actions, Abu Al-Walid Al-Ghamidi committed the creation and leadership of an armed formation not provided for by federal law, that is, a crime provided for by Part 1 of Art. 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
• Simultaneously, in January 2000, Abu Al-Walid Al-Ghamidi, continuing the leadership of illegal armed formations on the territory of the Chechen Republic, together with Khattab, Abu Umar, and some other leaders of bandit formations, planned the commission of further acts of terrorism in the city of Moscow and a number of other cities in the North Caucasus region of Russia. For this purpose, he directly supervised the preparation of a group of militants under the leadership of the accused Gochiyaev, and was engaged in supplying them with explosives, improvised explosive [devices].