terviewed as witnesses on unspecified dates.
43. According to replies from the Operational and Search Bureau of the North Caucasus operational department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation in the South Federal Circuit ("Оперативно-Розыскное Бюро Северо-Кавказского управления Главного управления МВД РФ по Южному федеральному округу") and the FSB department in the Chechen Republic, those authorities had not arrested Luiza Mutayeva and had no compromising materials on her.
44. On 1 May 2004 the military prosecutor of military unit No. 20102 was instructed to verify the following information: whether federal troops had carried out a special operation in Assinovskaya on 19 January 2004; whether they had arrested Luiza Mutayeva, and whether the military units stationed in the Achkhoy-Martan district and the Khankala settlement were equipped with GAZ minivans, UAZ, VAZ-2109 and VAZ-2107 vehicles. According to the military prosecutor's reply dated 22 June 2004, federal forces had not carried out any special operations in the village of Assinovskaya on 19 January 2004 and had not arrested Luiza Mutayeva. The military forces in question were equipped with GAZ minivans, UAZ and VAZ-2107 and VAZ-2109 vehicles. However, in the absence of information about their number plates it was impossible to establish which military unit owned the vehicles mentioned in the district prosecutor's office' request for information.
45. On 1 May 2004 heads of unspecified remand prisons in Stavropol, Nalchik, Chernokozovo, Nazran and Pyatigorsk were requested to provide information as to whether Luiza Mutayeva had been detained in those facilities. No relevant information was provided by those persons.
46. On 3 May 2004 the district prosecutor's office requested the military commander's office of the Achkhoy-Martan district, the Ministry of the Interior of the Chechen Republic, the Ministry of the Interior internal troops office in the North Caucasus Circuit, FSB departments in the Chechen Republic, Ingushetiya, North Ossetia-Alania and Dagestan, and the ROVD and police offices of the Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkariya Republics, to find out whether those State authorities had carried out special operations in Assinovskaya on 19 January 2004 and had arrested Luiza Mutayeva. No relevant information had been received from those State bodies.
47. The investigation in criminal case No. 49516 had been suspended on numerous occasions for failure to identify the culprits and reopened to check the information obtained as a result of operational and search measures.
48. The investigation in case No. 49516 is pending.
49. Despite a specific request by the Court the Government did not disclose most of the contents of criminal file No. 49516, providing only copies of the following documents:
- letter of 20 April 2004 by the Achkhoy-Martan deputy prosecutor, addressed to the head of the ROVD and requesting the latter to verify the information on the abduction of Luiza Mutayeva, submitted by the Memorial NGO on an unspecified date;
- a report by a police officer of the ROVD, dated 25 April 2004 to the effect that there were indications that a crime had been committed against Luiza Mutayeva;
- records of interviews with the applicant, her husband and her daughter Madina, dated 28 April 2004 and a record of an interview with B.A., dated 28 June 2004;
- a reply from the military prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20102 dated 22 June 2004;
- replies from various State authorities to the effect they had not carried out special operations in Assinovskaya on 19 January 2004, had not arrested Luiza Mutayeva, had not held her in detention and had no compromising materials on her or information on her whereabouts.
50. The Government submitted that the investigation was in pro
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