Resolution on Initiating a Motion to Extend the Period of the Preliminary Investigation

city of Rostov-on-Don, December 5, 2001

[Stamp: Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Region / For inquiries / 3]

Senior Investigator for Especially Important Cases of the Investigative Department of the FSB Directorate of the Russian Federation for the Rostov Region, Lieutenant Colonel of Justice A.V. Kruglov, having reviewed the materials of criminal case No. 173,

HAS ESTABLISHED:

• This criminal case was initiated by the investigative department of the FSB Directorate of the RF for the Rostov Region on September 16, 1999, on the grounds of crimes provided for by points "a", "e", "zh" of part 2 of article 105 and part 3 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
• The case concerns the fact of the explosion of an improvised explosive device committed on September 16, 1999, near residential building No. 35 on Oktyabrskoye Shosse in the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region.
• As a result of the explosion:
  • The facade of the 1st section of the specified residential building collapsed.
  • 19 people died.
  • More than 1500 citizens suffered health damage of varying severity.
  • Residential houses, buildings, and structures located in the area of the explosion were damaged.
  • The supply of electricity and gas was cut off, and the water supply was disrupted.

The period of the preliminary investigation in criminal case No. 173 is extended to thirty months, i.e., until March 16, 2002.

I EXTEND [it].

Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District, State Counselor of Justice 1st Class
[Signature] S.N. Fridinsky
"17" December 2001.