the FSB department in military unit No. 6732 informed the Shalinskiy district prosecutor's office that no certificate No. 407 of 23 November 2002 had been registered and that Colonel G. had never served in the FSB.
35. On 12 January 2003 the deputy head of the FSB Department for the Chechen Republic informed the Shalinskiy district prosecutor's office that the servicemen identified by the applicants as having been involved in the apprehension of their relatives had never served in the FSB. Checks were being conducted to establish whether they had served in "special investigative group 2" ("SSG-2"). The APCs with the licence plates referred to did not belong to the FSB either. Judging from the numbers on the plates, the vehicles might have belonged to the Ministry of the Interior. The FSB had no information concerning the apprehension of the applicants' relatives.
36. On 20 January 2003 the Shalinskiy district prosecutor's office again suspended the investigation.
37. On 30 January 2003 the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Buryatiya questioned A. and V., servicemen with the OMON unit of the Republic of Buryatiya, who had been on duty at checkpoint No. 113 at the relevant time (see paragraphs 13 - 14 above).
38. On 7 March 2003 the investigation was resumed.
39. On 11 March 2003 officer B. of the United Group Alignment (UGA) informed the Shalinskiy district prosecutor's office that he had no information concerning the apprehension of the applicants' relatives. Furthermore, Captain L. had never served with the Interior Ministry troops deployed in Urus-Martan. The APCs with the licence plates referred to did not belong to the Interior Ministry troops either.
40. On 25 March 2003 the prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20116, based in Shali, informed the third and fifth applicants that no servicemen of the unit had been involved in the apprehension and that neither battalion No. 348 of the Interior Ministry troops headed by captain L. nor the OMON unit of the Republic of Buryatiya was subordinate to military unit No. 20116.
41. On 28 March 2003 the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic informed the third applicant that, as stated in the FSB's reply of 13 March 2003, the FSB had no information to the effect that Mr Suliman Malikov, Mr Adlan Khatuyev, Mr Aslan Khatuyev, Mr Sayd-Salu Akhmatov and Mr Mansur Ismailov had been members of an illegal armed group, or information concerning their apprehension.
42. On 1 April 2003 the Shalinskiy district prosecutor's office extended the term of the preliminary investigation in the case to five months, until 7 May 2003. On the same date the case was transmitted to the military prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20102, based in Khankala.
43. On 14 April 2003 the case file was received by the military prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20102.
44. On 28 April 2003 the military prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20116, having regard to the applicants' application, informed the military prosecutor's office of the UGA that no servicemen of the units subordinate to military unit No. 20116 had either apprehended anybody at the indicated time and place or handed anybody over to the law-enforcement agencies.
45. On 6 May 2003 the term of the preliminary investigation in the case was extended to six months, until 7 June 2003.
46. On 8 May 2003 the military prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20102 informed the third applicant that investigative measures were being taken in order to establish whether servicemen of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of the Interior and the FSB deployed in the Urus-Martan District and the Achkhoy-Martan District had been involved in the abduction of the applicants' relatives.
47. On 19 May 2003 the preliminary inve
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