A cache of weapons was found in the basement of a St. Petersburg hotel

During the renovation work, a cache of weapons was discovered in the basement of the Sputnik Hotel in St. Petersburg. This was reported on June 24 in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Leningrad region.

The police officers of the Vyborg district of the city received a message from a hotel employee on Monday, June 23.

"When the police arrived, they counted three hand-held anti-tank grenades, two TT pistols (Tula Tokarev. — Ed.), a sniper rifle, a hunting carbine, more than one kilogram of TNT and several hundred rounds of ammunition," the Telegram channel says.

It is specified that the weapon was in a highly corrosive condition, and it has now been sent for examination. Previously, the cache was organized in the 1990s.

According to the Izvestia source, the hotel previously belonged to the criminal boss Boris Ivanov (also known as "Bob the Collector"), who was killed in 1999.

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