Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko held a video link from London to address a public commission in Moscow led by Sergei Kovalyov and Sergei Yushenkov regarding the 1999 apartment bombings. Litvinenko and lawyer Yuri Felshtinsky alleged that the Moscow and Volgodonsk bombings were organized by the FSB rather than Chechen terrorists, echoing previous claims by Boris Berezovsky. They presented a defense for primary suspect Achimez Gochiyayev, claiming he was a Moscow businessman framed by a school friend into renting the basements involved in the attacks. The session failed to produce a promised video interview with Gochiyayev, with Litvinenko citing technical difficulties in playing the tape. Additionally, Litvinenko asserted that evidence linking Gochiyayev to the militant Khattab was based on a photomontage.