Russia's chief investigator in Cairo to discuss Sinai air crash inquiry
MOSCOW. Nov 3 (Interfax) - The head of the Russian Investigative Committee (RIC), Alexander Bastrykin, is in Egypt to meet with the country's prosecutor general Nabil Ahmed Sadek and discuss a joint mechanism of investigating the Russian A321 plane crash on the Sinai Peninsula, RIC spokesman Vladimir Markin has said.
"Bastrykin and a group of investigators and criminal experts from the central office arrived in Cairo today where a meeting will be held soon with the prosecutor general of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Navil Ahmed Sadek," Markin told Interfax on Tuesday.
The meeting attendees will agree on a joint mechanism of organizing the investigation of the Russian plane crash, he said.
Bastrykin will also hold a meeting where he will outline the main areas of the RIC investigators and criminal experts' work of establishing the causes and circumstances of the crash.
"Despite the Egyptian authorities providing all possible assistance to the RIC investigators and criminal experts, it is very important to grant Russian investigators' actions a procedural status that will enable them to record traces of the accident in accordance with the Russian Criminal-Procedure Code," Markin said.
It was reported that on the morning of October 31 an A321 aircraft operated by the airline Kogalymavia, which was flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashed near the city of El Arish in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board were killed.
