f the case materials from the district prosecutor's office.
22. On 12 December 2002 the first applicant complained to the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic of the ineffectiveness of the investigation into her husband's kidnapping.
23. On 23 February 2003 the investigation in case No. 39024 was suspended for failure to identify the perpetrators.
24. On 9 December 2004 the district prosecutor's office notified the first applicant of the decision of 23 February 2003.
2. Information submitted by the Government
25. The applicants did not promptly inform the authorities of Aslanbek Khamidov's kidnapping. They contacted the NGO Memorial only on 22 January 2001.
26. On 24 March 2001 the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic received a complaint concerning Aslanbek Khamidov's kidnapping.
27. On an unspecified date the interdistrict prosecutor's office instituted an investigation into Aslanbek Khamidov's abduction under Article 126 § 2 of the Russian Criminal Code (aggravated kidnapping). The case file was assigned the number 39024.
28. On an unspecified date the first applicant was admitted to the proceedings as a victim and questioned. She stated that at about 9 a.m. on 25 October 2000 a group of armed servicemen wearing camouflage uniforms had arrived at her house in an Ural vehicle and an armoured personnel carrier ("APC") and had entered it. One of them - a heavily built man of medium height with dark complexion - had worn no beard or moustache and spoken Russian with a slight accent. The servicemen had not checked her husband's identity papers but had ordered him to take his shirt off. Aslanbek Khamidov had obeyed. The servicemen had noticed a scar left by a missile wound on his right shoulder and said that they would be taking him away for two hours to establish the origin of the wound. The first applicant had not seen her husband since then but had learned from fellow villagers that he had been brought to a filtration point in the village of Tsentoroy, kept there in a pit for 24 hours and then taken away in an unknown direction. On the same day two of her fellow villagers, Mr T. and Mr M., had been arrested and released seven days later from the territory of the Khankala military base. They had seen the first applicant's husband at the Tsentoroy filtration point but not in Khankala. Two other villagers, Mr A. and Mr I., who had been arrested on 25 October 2000 and then released on the same day, had seen Aslanbek Khamidov at the Tsentoroy filtration point. Aslanbek Khamidov had received the missile wound after an explosion of a mine at the farm neighbouring their house and had then been admitted to Kurchaloy Hospital and treated there from 22 September to 2 October 2000.
29. On unspecified dates Mr I., Mr U. and Mr M. were questioned. They stated that at about 11 a.m. on 25 October 2000 five unmasked men in camouflage uniforms had put them in an Ural vehicle and taken them to the village of Novogrozny. The witnesses had been kept there until the evening and then released in the presence of Mr D., the head of the local administration of Alleroy.
30. On an unspecified date Mr and Ms A., Aslanbek Khamidov's brother and his sister-in-law, were questioned. They stated that during the identity check carried out in Alleroy by the federal military ten men armed with machine guns speaking Russian without an accent had seen Aslanbek Khamidov's missile wound and taken him away to the temporary federal military base near Tsentoroy and Alleroy.
31. On an unspecified date Mr Kh., a surgeon of Kurchaloy Hospital, was questioned and stated that he did not remember a patient named Aslanbek Khamidov and could not give any information on the latter's wound because the hospital archive materials dated prior to 2003 had been lost.
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