RESOLUTION

to bring as an accused

City of Moscow, April 10, 2002

Investigator for especially 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, Emir Ibn Al-Khattab, in that during the period from 1998 to the present, while on the territory of the Chechen Republic (ChR) and acting in violation of Federal Law "On Defense" No. 61-FZ dated May 31, 1996, he, together with the leaders of Chechen separatists and foreign mercenaries - Basaev, Baraev, Gelaev, Abu Al-Walid Al-Ghamidi, and Abu Umar, created illegal armed formations (IAF) for participation in combat operations against Federal forces, having weaponry, military equipment, and a military organization, led them, planned the execution of terrorist acts, organized the training of their perpetrators from among the participants of the IAF, whom he provided with explosives (BB), weapons, and financial means, and also personally led bandit formations that participated in the noted period in combat operations against the Federal forces of the RF.

By the specified actions, Emir Ibn Al-Khattab 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 July - September 1999, Khattab, while exercising leadership of the IAF on the territory of the ChR, planned the commission of large-scale acts of terrorism in the city of Moscow. For this purpose, he selected a group consisting of Gochiyaev A.Sh., Abaev Kh.M., Batchaev T.A., Dekkushev A.O., Krymshamkhalov Yu.I., and Saitakov D.F., organized their training in mine-explosive work, provided them with financial means, means of detonation, and explosives with a total weight of over 9 tons, which, in accordance with the plan developed by Khattab, the specified persons delivered by motor transport from the territory of Chechnya to the city of Moscow to the addresses: Borisovskie Prudy St., house 16 bldg. 2 and Krasnodarskaya St., house 70. After which, they removed about 3.5 tons of explosives from these warehouses to selected locations.