Appendix 9

DECREE

on accepting a criminal case for proceedings

Moscow "1" October 2002
(place of drafting)

I, Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases of the Directorate for the Investigation
(name of the preliminary investigation or inquiry body, class rank or title,
of Particularly Important Cases of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Senior Coun-
surname, initials of the investigator (inquirer))
selor of Justice Zipunnikov I.I., having reviewed the materials of criminal case No. 18/230300-
02, initiated on September 9, 1999, by the Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow regarding the fact
(initiated when, by whom)
of the explosion in residential building No. 19 on Guryanova St. in Moscow, and considering that the conduct
of the investigation has been assigned to me by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian
(by whom)
Federation, guided by part two of Art. 156 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the RF,

DECREED:

1. To accept criminal case No. 18/230300-02 for my proceedings and proceed
   with the investigation.
2. To send a copy of this decree to the prosecutor, the Deputy Gene-
   ral Prosecutor of the Russian Federation.
   (name of the prosecutor's office body)

Investigator (inquirer) [signature] I.I. Zipunnikov
(signature)