Another mass grave found in Chechnya

A mass grave was discovered in the vicinity of the village of Kapustino, Naursky district of Chechnya. According to the local police department, it contained the corpses of seven men aged approximately 20 to 50 years. According to the police, all the corpses have traces of gunshot wounds. The source does not rule out that the dead, who were held hostage by the militants for ransom, were brought here from another region of the republic to hide traces of the crime. The corpses have now been taken to the village mosque for identification. ITAR-TASS

The underground workshop was closed

GUBEP operatives raided an underground workshop that produced anti-corrosion coatings for cars under the brand of the famous St. Petersburg company Forsan Trading House LLC. The police came to the false Forsan after a statement from the management of the real Forsan. The workshop was located in Balashikha, near Moscow, on the territory of a local plant. The operatives detained several workers from among local residents (they were soon released), seized more than 2000 liters of silicate-ceramic composition and numerous containers with a capacity of 100 and 50 ml. Videotapes with advertising videos, numerous stickers and advertising booklets were found in the office of the false "Forsan". None of the workshop management was there. At the moment, the issue of initiating a criminal case under Art. 180 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal use of a trademark."
ALEXEY J-GERASIMOV

Exchange office robbed

In the southwest of Moscow, on Saturday night, three criminals robbed an Instroybank exchange office located in a slot machine hall on Paustovsky Street. 70 thousand rubles and $4 thousand were stolen. The cashier of the exchange office said that at half past midnight she was stopped when leaving the exchange office by three unknown people, two of whom were wearing masks. Threatening her with a pistol, the criminals took her back to the exchange office and took her money.
RIA News"

Explosion in Makhachkala

On Friday evening in Makhachkala, on Irchi-Kazaka Street, unknown persons blew up the GAZ-3110 car of the deputy director of the republican anti-plague station, Sergei Batsyn. The explosion injured three teenagers who were nearby. In the next five-story building on the ground floor, window glass was broken and cars were damaged. According to the head of the Leninsky district police department of Makhachkala, Magomed Yusupov, an explosive device of an unknown type with a capacity of about 500 g in TNT equivalent was attached to the bottom of the car on a magnet. Magomed Yusupov named several versions of the assassination attempt, including a domestic one.
ITAR-TASS

The captain "educated" the soldiers with a sapper shovel

The military prosecutor's office of the Far Eastern Military District (FMD) opened a criminal case against the captain of one of the units of the Far Eastern Military District, Alexey Basistov, on charges of assault.
As the press service of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reported on Saturday, the captain “allowed assault on three of his subordinates,” using a sapper shovel. As a result, the report notes, one of the victims was hospitalized with an open head injury. “The issue of applying a preventive measure to Captain Basistov in the form of taking him into custody is currently being decided,” the GVP statement says.
"Interfax"

Newspaper “Kommersant” No. 22/P dated 02/10/2003, p. 6

Authors:

Alexey Gerasimov

Incidents – Kommersant newspaper No. 22 (2625) dated 02/10/2003