DECREE

on the initiation of a criminal case

March 26, 2002, Essentuki

Senior Assistant to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, State Counselor of Justice 3rd Class V.P. Kravchenko, having reviewed the materials of the inquiry into the statement of Shakhnazarov,

ESTABLISHED:

• On February 13, 2002, lawyer A.A. Shakhnazarov from Legal Consultation No. 1 of Cherkessk approached the UFSB of the RF for the KChR with a statement.
• He stated that employees of the investigative group of the Prosecutor General's Office of the RF, V. Turlaev and A. Solzhenitsyn, during the period of May 2001 - January 2002, received bribes from him for the release from custody of persons arrested in a criminal case initiated regarding the fact of bombings in the territory of Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody and the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
• During the inquiry, Shakhnazarov's statement was not confirmed.
• By a Decree dated December 25, 2001, the initiation of a criminal case against the investigators of the investigative group was refused due to the absence of a corpus delicti.
• Upon receipt of the statement, Shakhnazarov was warned of criminal liability under Art. 306 of the UK RF for knowingly false denunciation.

Guided by Art. 211 p. 11 of the UPK RSFSR,

DECREED:

1. To initiate a criminal case against A.A. Shakhnazarov on the grounds of a crime provided for by Part 2 of Art. 306 of the UK RF.
2. To entrust the investigation of the case to the Deputy Head of the Department of the Prosecutor General's Office in the North Caucasus, M.M. Umariyev.

Senior Assistant to the Prosecutor General
of the Russian Federation
State Counselor
of Justice 3rd Class [signature] V.P. Kravchenko

Received 24.07.2002
Rep. Prosecutor's Office. Office of Deputy Prosecutor Kuznetsov
Investigator Lozinsky V.I.