GROZNY. March 3 (Interfax) - Chechen Human Rights commissioner Nurdi Nukhazhiyev has handed documents he believes prove military and police involvement in the abductions of Chechen civilians to Alexander Bastrykin, the chief of the Investigative Committee within the Russian prosecution system.
"I handed the documents to Bastrykin during a session of the board of the Investigative Committee's department for the Chechen republic on Tuesday. They contain lists of more than 200 Chechen residents abducted from the fall of 1999 to 2003. Military and police officers are involved in the disappearance of these people," Nukhazhiyev told Interfax.
"The file includes information on military servicemen and policemen responsible for abductions, their personal data, ranks, call signs, and license plates," he said.
Nukhazhiyev said also that he had "provided Bastrykin with information on inappropriate investigation of criminal cases involving abductions in the Chechen republic, Dagestan, North Ossetia, the Stavropol territory. All this information concerns eight facts, including those on two abducted women," he said.
Nukhazhiyev said Bastrykin had promised him that this information would be thoroughly probed.