ial operation there would have been a record to that effect.
63. On an unspecified date Mr K. was again questioned as a witness. He submitted that in December 2000 he had occupied the post of executing officer of the district military commander's office. On the day of Mayrudin Khantiyev's abduction he had been on leave. No special operations had been carried out on that day. Had there been a special operation, Mr K. would have been notified about it.
64. On an unspecified date the investigators questioned as a witness Mr Ut., a serviceman of the district military commander's office. Mr Ut. stated that on 4 December 2000 he and other servicemen of the district military commander's office had been on duty on the roof of house No. 269 at Ugolnaya Street in Grozny. House No. 269 was located near the district military commander's office. On the night of 4 December 2000 everything had been calm and nothing had attracted Mr Ut.'s attention. He had not seen a NIVA vehicle arrive at house No. 269. At about 6 a.m. he had seen a group of civilians who were shouting something. He had had a permanent connection to the district military commander's office via military communication channels but on that morning he had not communicated with them. No one had mentioned a NIVA vehicle to him. He had learnt about the abduction of Mayrudin Khantiyev from the residents of the house in the morning. He had not heard any calls for help. On 18 December 2001 he had been summoned to the military commander's office where he had met the first applicant. She had accused him of not telling the truth about the abduction of her son and he had answered that he had told the investigators everything he knew. Mr Ut. had known Mayrudin Khantiyev only by his face. He had heard from someone that Mayrudin Khantiyev had been taking drugs.
65. On an unspecified date the investigators questioned Mr P. as a witness. He stated that he had been serving in the mine unit of the commander's squadron with the district military commander's office since June 2000. His unit duty was to secure compliance with the curfew and to provide fire support to the adjacent checkpoints in case of necessity. On the night of 4 December 2000 Mr P. had taken up his duties together with Mr Ut. and Mr Dug. Mr P. could not remember the names of the other servicemen on duty that night. At about 6.15 a.m. he had heard people speaking Chechen in the courtyard of the house. At about 9 a.m. he had learnt that Mayrudin Khantiyev had been abducted from house No. 269. The eyewitnesses to the incident and relatives of the abducted had submitted that a vehicle had arrived at the house. Mr P.'s duty hours had finished at 6 a.m. At about that time he had gone to the shelter where other servicemen were resting in order to wake up Mr Ut. The latter and Mr P. were absent for about ten minutes and did not hear a vehicle arriving. If it had indeed arrived at the house, servicemen from the second watch point located on the roof of house No. 269 would have noticed it. Mr P. had not known Mayrudin Khantiyev personally and had not had communicated with him.
66. On an unspecified date the investigators requested the FSB Department of the Chechen Republic to provide information on Mayrudin Khantiyev's eventual implication in illegal armed groups. From the reply of that authority it followed that Mayrudin Khantiyev had been a member of an organised criminal group that had been trading in arms and ammunition, including their acquisition in exchange for drugs.
67. On an unspecified date the investigators questioned Ms V., a neighbour of the abducted, as a witness. She stated that on 4 December 2000 she had heard from the street a woman's cry for help. Ms V. had learnt from other neighbours that Mayrudin Khantiyev had been abducted. At that time servicemen of the military commander's office had been on duty
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