Maritime security services withdraws bandit "trunk" whole arsenals of

Edge FSB of Russia, together with the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and other law enforcement agencies in March held a number of activities to find out and suppress illicit trafficking in firearms, ammunition, explosives, and organized crime.

As a result, found a number of underground arsenals belonging to criminal gangs.

In March, during the searches at three area residents Anuchinskogo seized several home-made firearms, and a large number of ammunition. Seized items sent to the Forensic Science Center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs PC forensic investigations and fact-finding of criminal use of weapons. Now the decision to institute criminal proceedings under Art. 222 of the Criminal Code ("illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, ammunition and explosives").

Also in March, in an uninhabited area Dalnegorsk together with employees of SU IC Interior Ministry's computer was seized kitted gun "PM" with seven bullets. According to preliminary data, firearms owned by one of the defendants in high-profile criminal case on the murder in October 2006 the candidate for the post of Dalnegorsk Dmitry Fatyanova. The criminal investigation is ongoing.

In Vladivostok, officers with the police in one of the apartments on the street. Ovchinnikov found and seized more than 400 rounds of 762 mm in the original package. According to preliminary information, the illegal acquisition and possession of weapons involved owners of the premises, a native of the Ryazan region. Who carries out activities involved in establishing the flow of weapons into the illicit trade.

Last year alone, the FSB of Russia for the Primorye Territory in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies of illicit seized 14 firearms, more than 3000 units. ammunition of various calibres and 13 kg of explosives.

It remains only to recall that for the illegal possession, manufacture and sale of firearms is subject to criminal liability. Since February 26 came into force verdict against a resident of Ussuriysk, who was found guilty on Part 1 of Art. 222 of the Criminal Code, and received 4 years of imprisonment in a penal colony for his part in the channel sales of firearms and explosives.