Several lawyers said the most important leads had been discovered by defense investigators, which raises questions about the depth of the investigation for inmates who are not represented by counsel.
"A big volume of work was conducted by the investigators, which established an objective picture of the events that happened," investigative committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said late Wednesday on the agency's website.
He also said that his arrest followed offers to speak to investigators, which were ignored.
His meeting with investigators, which could take place in the next few days, will undoubtedly take longer.
In cases that broke before the advent of Internet sleuthing, they often called themselves "private investigators," which represented a shockingly diverse category.
Among the changes has been an increase in the number of investigators, which has reduced what had been a chronic backlog.
Mr. Bolton, who termed Mr. Mekdad's denials "ridiculous," accused Syria of failing to cooperate with the investigators, which, he said, was "diplospeak for obstruction of justice".
Muchamore used to work for a firm of private investigators, which sounds like a good jumping-off point for a spy fiction writer.
"I had no response from her," Pender told investigators, "which meant, you know, either she hung up on me or we lost the signal".
The jury found her guilty of four counts of lying to police investigators, which carries a maximum of a one-year prison sentence for each count.
Another was enabling the personnel office to rapidly hire more field investigators, which it did by outsourcing 75 percent of the work to the private sector.
