MOSCOW, August 27 (RIA Novosti) – A man detained by police after a gun was found in a bag in a Moscow fitness club was planning a robbery and a kidnapping, a spokesperson for city police said Tuesday.
The police received an anonymous tipoff on August 23, saying that a man had left a bag containing a gun and two magazines in a Moscow branch of the fitness chain Zebra, the spokesperson said.
A man police identified as the bag’s owner was detained the next day.
“Police have established that the man detained has been involved in planning serious crimes - abduction for ransom and a robbery on a Moscow jewelry store,” the spokesperson said.
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