The cache of weapons and ammunition found in the basement of a nine-storey residential building in Moscow, was there from 1990-ies and could be owned by the orekhovskaya criminal group, have informed the correspondent of REN TV from the event.
Currently the basement of the house on Kulikovo street in North Butovo examined robots-sappers, as in the stash and found several explosive devices.
Earlier, on 22 April, it was reported that more than a hundred residents of the house on the South-West of Moscow was evacuated after the discovery in the basement of ammunition and weapons. The house is surrounded by police.
Law enforcement authorities asked the workers of municipal services, discovered in the basement of the suspicious items.
In November 2015 the staff of head Department of criminal investigation Department of the Ministry of internal Affairs and the Moscow Department of the Federal security service defused a criminal group engaged in trafficking in weapons and explosives in the Moscow, Smolensk and Tver regions.
In one of the caches criminals discovered the bomb. In addition, the bandits, according to police seized 15 high-explosive shells, 8 kilograms of TNT, 4 pounds of gunpowder, a few minutes, about 10 thousand rounds of ammunition, 30 grenades, 40 electric detonators, three rifles, a machine gun, a pistol, two revolvers and a sawn off shotgun.
