Moscow Main Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee has resumed investigation in a criminal case over hostage-taking in the theater in Dubrovka on 23 October 2002. At present Khazan Zakayev, 41, who was internationally wanted, is held in custody. He was detained when he tried to get in Crimea from Ukraine and showed forged documents.
According to investigators, Zakayev was a member of an organized criminal community led by Shamil Basayev and assisted in preparing the terrorist attack and hostage-taking in the theater. In 2002, he organized transportation of firearms and improvised explosive devices in Moscow, which were then used by the terrorists. He was charged with crimes under part 2 of article 210, parts 1 and 3 of article 30 and part 3 of article 205, part 5 of article 33, part 3 of article 206, part 2 of article 105, part 3 of article 222, paragraphs “h” and “g” of part 2 of article 105, part 2 of article 167 of the RF Penal Code (membership in a criminal community, plotting a terrorist attack, complicity in hostage-taking, attempted murder of two and more people, illegal storage of firearms, deliberate destruction of another’s property).
According to investigators a few days before the terrorist attack, on 19 October, members of the same criminal community blew up a car near a MacDonald’s restaurant in Moscow. 1 person was killed and 8 more wounded. On the same day they tried to blow up a car near Tchaikovsky cinema in Moscow.
I would like to remind that 6 of the accomplices have been sentenced to long prison terms, 40 terrorists were killed during the special operation and only one terrorist Gerikhan Dudayev is wanted. Without doubt he will face the same fate as those who have already been punished for their evil deeds. Such crimes have no expiration date and no-one of those who commit them in the Russian Federation or against Russian citizens will go unpunished.
Head of Media Relations V.I. Markin
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