ROSTOV-ON-DON. June 18 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Prosecutor General's Office sent an official request to Georgia to detain and expel three Russian nationals charged with blowing up a residential building in Volgodonsk in September 1999.
Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky told Interfax on Tuesday that a corresponding document was sent to the Georgian prosecutor general on June 11.
"The investigation has established that residents of Karachayevo-Cherkessia Yusuf Krymshamkhalov, Timur Batchayev and Adam Dekkushev, who are charged with the explosion of the building in Volgodonsk, are hiding in Georgia, and we ask that our Georgian counterparts detain them and turn them over to Russian justice," Fridinsky said.
He said that the three belonged to a group of terrorists led by Achemez Gochiyaev. That group is also responsible for the explosion of two apartment blocks in Moscow in September 1999.
The two explosions in Moscow, which took place almost three years ago, took the lives of 228. A total of 18 people died as a result of the Volgodonsk explosion and over 300 were wounded. Some of the bombers have already been convicted.