Investigation of explosion of "Neva-Express" train over: nobody found guilty

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) has finished its inquiry into the case of blowing up, in August 2007, of the "Neva-Express" train. The materials of the case have been sent to the General Prosecutor's Office for approval of the bill of particulars, as Alexander Bastrykin, head of the ICPO, told to the Collegium of the General Prosecutor's Office on February 25.

The "Caucasian Knot" had reported that the crash of Train 166 Moscow - St-Petersburg ("Neva-Express" train) happened at 9:38 p.m. on August 13, 2007, Moscow time in the railway section Burga-Malaya Vishera of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. As a result of the train crash, 60 passengers were injured, fortunately, there were no fatal traumas.

However, the inquiry has neither customers nor direct executors of the terror act, as the newspaper "Vremya Novostey" writes. The natives of Ingushetia Salanbek Dzakkhiev and Maksharip Khidriev are figuring in the case only as helpers. Their case was isolated into a separate proceeding. Under one of the versions, the terror act was organized and committed by one person - Pavel Kosolapov, who was announced into search last August.

Kosolapov is already searched for organization in 2003-2005 of a series of terror acts, in particular, in Moscow Metro, and in the cities of Samara, Krasnodar and Voronezh. However, the investigation has no particular proofs of his involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train.

Messrs Khidriev and Dzakkhiev are kept in custody since autumn of 2007, accordingly, soon the 18 months shall expire, during which, under the law, suspects can be held in custody before the case goes to the court.