“A large number of weapons and ammunition were seized during searches,” it was informed.
According to the agency, more than ten pistols with signs of alteration, two submachine guns, several rifles, carbines and rifles, a revolver, more than one hundred rounds of various calibers, gunpowder, components and blanks for weapons were seized.
It is noted that among the suspects are two taxi drivers and a hairdresser, all of them are residents of St. Petersburg or the Leningrad Region.
Earlier, in the Chelyabinsk State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs they said that a criminal case was opened in Chelyabinsk against four local residents involved in the manufacture and sale of firearms. According to URA.RU with reference to the press service of the department, the crime was uncovered by employees of the organized crime department of the criminal investigation department of the regional police headquarters.