Law enforcement authorities learned of the stash of the orekhovskaya group with weapons and ammunition in Moscow from the former gang member, who was detained for organizing illegal migration. It is reported Life.ru citing a source in law enforcement bodies.
“For voluntary provision of information and cooperation with the investigation he hoped to mitigate the sentence”, — said the interlocutor of the edition.
The name of a former member of the gang is not called. It is known that he was previously convicted for robberies and robberies. After his release he engaged in the organization and the protection of dens of migrants in Butovo, for which he was arrested in early 2016.
Life.ru writes that were found in the hide machine guns, handguns, rifles, machine guns, grenades, improvised explosive devices, primer-detonators. Arsenal were in the basement of the house on the street Kulikov (Northern Butovo) from late 1990-ies.
About the discovery of arms and ammunition became known on April 22. Residents of the house where the stash was at the time evacuated.
The orekhovskaya organized crime group originated in the mid 1980-ies. The members of the gang engaged in murders, robberies, extortion, racketeering. The gang was smashed by law enforcement agencies in the late 1990s, the trials of the gang members were all 2000-ies.
