On March 26, 2002, Senior Assistant to the Prosecutor General V.P. Kravchenko issued a decree initiating a criminal case against lawyer A.A. Shakhnazarov for knowingly false denunciation. Shakhnazarov had alleged that investigators V. Turlaev and A. Solzhenitsyn of the Prosecutor General's Office accepted bribes between May 2001 and January 2002 to release individuals suspected of bombings in Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody and the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. The decree states that an inquiry failed to confirm Shakhnazarov's bribery allegations, leading to a prior refusal to prosecute the investigators on December 25, 2001. The case against Shakhnazarov was assigned to M.M. Umariyev. This document highlights legal actions taken against defense counsel involved in bombing-related cases in the North Caucasus.