Metropolitan police detained a high-ranking employee of the Federal penitentiary service, which was carrying several dozen rounds of ammunition in his bag. A woman caught on the metro.
Boss engineering and weapons division of occupational N2 detention facility “Butyrka” was detained at the metro station “Dostoevskaya”, reports the Agency “Moscow” with reference to a source in law enforcement bodies.
“During the search of her purse was found a few dozen rounds of ammunition,” he added.
In respect of officials of the penitentiary Department brought criminal case under item 222 (“Illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition”). The sanction of article provides till eight years of imprisonment.
Now the suspect is under house arrest. The order on its dismissal is already signed, the source said.
In the security service of the Moscow metro confirmed that attempts to bring a woman into the subway live ammunition.
“On 8 April, the security personnel of the metro at the metro station “Dostoevskaya” asked the woman to pass a more detailed inspection of Luggage, resulting in, she had found live ammunition. The woman was handed over to the police for further investigation”, – said the representative of the security service station.
Add that just before the police at the Moscow metro announced the arrest of a man who descended into the subway with a firearm.
“In the South lobby of the metro station “Kaluga” Kaluga-Riga line in the conduct of inspection activities by the police on suspicion of illegal possession of weapons was detained 56-the summer Muscovite”, – said Tuesday the head of the press service of the UVD on the Moscow metro Alex Myshlyaev.
According to him, during personal inspection in the presence of witnesses from the citizen was found and confiscated a subject similar to a pistol. “The examination established that the seized gun made an improvised way with the use of industrial equipment and is srednestan improvised smooth-bore firearms of caliber close to 15.5 mm, suitable for the production of individual shots,” added Myshlyaev.
According to him, as a result of additional audit found that the detainee was previously convicted for a similar crime.
Against men opened a criminal case under article 222 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation, reports “Interfax”.
At the same metro station “Kaluga” on April 8 in the evening the shooting occurred due to conflict between passengers. According to press reports, “a man of Slavic appearance made some obscene remarks to two Tajik citizens-migrants, who were traveling with him in a subway car”. Passenger “insulted the migrants, and even after I started expelling them from the car, saying that this place”.
Under the hail of insults were a citizen of Tajikistan sulaymon Saidov and his 19-year-old nephew Muhammadjon Khakimov.
When Saidov tried to calm down the Slav, the man pulled out a traumatic gun and fired twice at the opponent. One of the two bullets had hit Saidova in the eye and stuck there. The victim was hospitalized in intensive care in serious condition.
On Saturday, the court arrested the suspect in the shooting, which was a 60-year-old Sergei Tsarev.
