9 March 2004 the military prosecutor's office of the UGA transmitted the case to the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic. In the letter of the same date the military prosecutor's office of the UGA also informed the fourth and fifth applicants that in the course of the preliminary investigation it had been established that on 10 June 2002 their relatives had been brought to Kh., the deputy prosecutor of the Shatoy inter-district prosecutor's office.
62. On 23 March 2004 the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic transmitted the case to the military prosecutor's office of the UGA in the Northern Caucasus.
63. On 29 March 2004 the applicants applied in writing to the military prosecutor's office of the UGA. They stated that they had seen the VAZ 21061 car on numerous occasions in the town of Khankala and once had seen D., the "Boomerang", in it. The applicants alleged that D. had been in charge of the "sweeping" operations in Duba-Yurt and asked that these events be investigated.
64. On 5 May 2004 the military prosecutor's office of the UGA informed the first, third, fifth and seventh applicants that during the preliminary investigation it had been established that no servicemen had been involved in the abduction of their relatives, and that the case had therefore been transmitted to the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic.
65. On 21 May 2004 the Shatoy inter-district prosecutor's office informed the third applicant that the applicants' relatives had never been brought either to the prosecutor's office or to any of its officials, including the deputy prosecutor Kh. They had never been detained, questioned or put on a wanted list by the Shatoy inter-district prosecutor's office. Nor had they ever been placed in the temporary detention centre of the Shatoy VOVD.
66. On 11 June 2004 the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic informed the third applicant that the criminal case had been transmitted to the Southern District Department of the Prosecutor General's Office for inspection.
67. On 26 June 2004 the military prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20116 informed the fifth applicant that the Shalinskiy district prosecutor's office had instituted an investigation into the abduction of the applicants' relatives, in criminal case No. 69117.
68. On 25 September 2004 the military prosecutor's office of the UGA informed the first and third applicants that on 24 September 2004 it had resumed the preliminary investigation.
69. On 24 October 2004 the investigation was suspended on the ground of the absence of corpus delicti.
70. The applicants submitted a document with neither a letterhead nor signatures. At the top of the document it was written in pen that it had been issued by T., senior investigator of the UGA, on 16 November 2004. The document reads as follows:
"Witness [D.], commander of ["SSG-2"], stated that on 9 June 2002 during the special passport-checking operation at checkpoint No. 113 located on the southern outskirts of Duba-Yurt in the Shalinskiy District of the Chechen Republic, servicemen of military unit [No.] 6779 had apprehended [Mr] Malikov, [Mr] Akhmatov, [Mr] Adlan Khatuyev, [Mr] Aslan Khatuyev and [Mr] Ismailov. On 10 June 2002 the apprehended persons had been handed over to six servicemen of the Shatoy Department of [the FSB]; [however] he could remember neither their names nor their positions. The servicemen of the Shatoy Department of [the FSB] had taken the apprehended persons with them and he knew nothing of their fate."
71. On 17 November 2004 the first, third, fifth and seventh applicants wrote to the Prosecutor General asking him to ensure that an adequate investigation was conducted into their sons' disappearance. They noted that they were particularly appalled by the r
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