Personal Information

• Date: 24.04.2002.
• Name: Gochiyayev Achemez Shagabanovich.
• Date of Birth: September 28, 1970.
• Place of Birth: Karachaevsk, KChR (Karachay-Cherkess Republic) (formerly Stavropol Krai).

Early Life and Education

• Until the age of 16, I lived in Karachaevsk.
• I graduated from secondary school No. 3, residing at Kurdzhieva St. 14, apt. 34.
• After school, I went to study in Moscow, enrolling in PTU (Vocational School) No. 67, located at the 'Pervomayskaya' station.

Military Service

• A year after vocational school, I graduated and was drafted into the army.
• I served in the Strategic Missile Forces.
• Training was completed in Belarus for half a year, with the remainder of service in Siberia, Altai Krai, Pervomayskiy settlement.

Post-Military Life and Business

• After the army, I was at home for about 2 years.
• I then returned to Moscow, worked, and attempted to engage in commerce.
• In 1996, I got married and received a residence permit; my registered address is Strogino, Marshal Katukov St. 6, apt. 188.
• In 1997, I opened my own firm, engaged in the construction of cottages and [?]. The firm was named 'Kapstroy 2000'.

FSB Assertions

The FSB's assertions—that I am the organizer of the Moscow bombings, that I am connected with Basaev and Khattab, that they paid me $500,000 for these bombings, and that I underwent training in a camp in Urus-Martan—are an absolute lie.

I have never had anything to do with the FSB or other similar structures.

Business Opportunity in Moscow

As I wrote earlier, I lived and worked in Moscow. In June 1999, a man came to my company whom I had known very well since my school days.

• He suggested that we go into business together; he said he had good opportunities for selling food products.
• First, he ordered mineral water from me; I brought it to him, he sold it, and settled the payment with me on time.
• Then he told me that he needed premises in the south-east of Moscow, where he supposedly had sales points.

Events Summary

• I helped him rent these premises on Guryanova, on Kashirka, Borisovskie Prudy and Kapotnya.
• On September 9, I was visiting friends and at 5 o'clock in the morning this person called me on my mobile and said that there was a small fire at the warehouse on Guryanova and I needed to come there.
• I said I would come and started getting ready.
• I turned on the TV and saw what had actually happened and I decided not to go anywhere and to wait it out.
• On September 13, when the house explosion on Kashirskoye Highway occurred, I finally realized that I had been set up.
• I immediately called the police, the ambulance, even the 911 rescue service and reported the warehouses at Borisovskie Prudy and Kapotnya, where after this explosion it was possible to prevent others.
• I was declared a suspect, then an organizer, and since then I have had to hide.
• Analyzing all these events, I come to the conclusion that this entire monstrous plan was developed and implemented by those people for whom it was then...

Account Summary

• The plan had one misfire: the fact that I managed to get away from them. I think that the fact that on September 9 I was not at home but visiting someone played its role.
• I am almost certain that this person with whom I worked (I will provide all data on him later) is an FSB agent.
• Employees of the internal affairs of the city of Karachaevsk, upon a request from Moscow, indicated in documents that I am a native of Chechnya, in order to somehow link me with Chechnya, when in fact I have never lived in Chechnya.
• From my brother Boris Gochiyayev, who works in the district police department, I learned that they have an order not to take me alive.
• I then realized that the publicity that the FSB gave me by declaring me a terrorist, an organizer of the bombings, a villain, etc., was all done on purpose; they hoped that by liquidating me...

Statement

• To trumpet to the whole country and the whole world that such a "super-terrorist" who blew up the houses in Moscow has been destroyed, and thereby close this terrible topic.

Regarding my sister

• I know that she was often interrogated; first they offered money, then they frightened, threatened, and beat her.
• They were trying to get testimony against me from her, so that she would publicly state that I committed these bombings.
• After that, they imprisoned her husband, Taukan Frantsuzov, accusing him of involvement in the bombings in Moscow; later this accusation, as everyone knows, collapsed miserably, but they still lumped him in with some group and sentenced him to 13.5 years; I regard this as revenge against me. (If there is a need, I will be able to provide my sister's witness testimony, it will just take a little time).

As for Ryazan

• I have never been there and do not know this city.

To the question of whether I am ready to go to a third country to make public statements.

In the situation in which I found myself, guarantees that would guarantee my safety simply do not exist, and as for a public statement, I am ready to meet with a journalist(s) and answer all questions of interest.

This is a brief description of all the events that occurred (we will talk about details later).