The FSB seized more than 100 weapons and explosives from the Taganskaya organized crime group

Russian FSB officers have discovered and seized more than 100 weapons and explosives from the Taganskaya Organized Criminal Group (OCG) cache. This was announced on May 12 by the FSB's Public Relations Center.

"Employees of the FSB of Russia from the Tagansky OPS (organized criminal community. More than 100 firearms of domestic and foreign production were seized from the cache," the report says.

It is specified that 35 Kalashnikov assault rifles of various modifications, 27 pistols of foreign and Russian brands, nine revolvers, eight rifles with optics and silencers, eight submachine guns and more than 15 thousand cartridges of different calibers are among the seized.

The operatives also seized a large stock of explosives — 36 kg of TNT and rdx, three improvised explosive devices, grenade launchers "Bumblebee", "Mukha" and RPG-22, 14 combat grenades of various types, a stun grenade, fuses, fuses and electric detonators.

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Earlier that day, Igor Zhirnokleev, the leader of the Taganskaya organized criminal group, was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony. Other members of the group, including Oleg Rusanov, Boris Tretyak, Dmitry Yukhnevich, Igor Balashov, German Grishin, Gennady Lukyanov, Sergey Shcherbakov, Sergey Shchukarev, Marat Yanbukhtin, received from 22 to 25 years in prison.

The criminal case against 11 defendants was submitted to the Moscow City Court in 2021 for consideration on the merits. Grigory Rabinovich, the leader of the Taganskaya organized crime group, who was detained in 2019, died in a pre-trial detention center in Moscow on June 26, 2024. According to the Izvestia source, the cause of death of the defendant, known in criminal circles as Grisha Tagansky, could have been a heart attack. The man died at night in the "Matrosskaya Tishina", before he lived to see the trial.