Appendix 170

"I EXTEND"

the period of preliminary investigation in criminal case No. 18/230300-02 to forty-one months

Deputy Prosecutor General
of the Russian Federation
State Counselor of
Justice 1st Class [signature] V.V. Kolmogorov

October 24, 2002

DECISION

to initiate a motion to extend the
period of preliminary investigation

Moscow, October 24, 2002

Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases of the Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Senior Counselor of Justice I.I. Zipunnikov, having examined the materials of criminal case No. 18/230300-02,

HAS ESTABLISHED:

• The present criminal case against the accused A.O. Dekkushev was separated into a separate proceeding on September 9, 2002, from criminal case No. 103, initiated regarding the facts of explosions in residential buildings in the cities of Moscow and Volgodonsk, Rostov Region, in September 1999.
• The criminal case was accepted for my proceeding on October 1, 2002.
• On September 9, 1999, regarding the fact of the explosion in residential building No. 19 on Guryanova St. in Moscow, criminal case No. 275209 was initiated.
• On September 13, 1999, criminal cases were initiated