An underground prison with a crematorium, discovered in an abandoned house in the Leningrad Region, was demolished at the request of the owner

There was a bathhouse near the house, in which, through a secret hole, one could get into a well several concrete rings deep, at the bottom of which there was a stove. It was noted that a person can fit in this oven.

According to Fontanka, the first owner was an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who retired back in 2004, and the next was “an interesting Petersburger who officially changed his last name to Escobar.”

A few days after the discovery of the building, the Investigative Committee announced that they did not consider the underground bunker with a crematorium in the Leningrad Region as a private prison.

According to the senior assistant to the head of the central office Maria Dobrynina, the basement was examined by investigators and criminologists from the regional administration and from the central office of the Investigative Committee. She clarified that numerous examinations did not reveal traces of people staying in the bunker.

“More than 500 objects were seized, for which more than 100 fingerprint, biological, molecular-genetic forensic examinations were carried out,” Dobrynina specified.

Later, The Insider spoke with Evgeny Vyshenkov, deputy editor-in-chief of Fontanka, who told the version about who and why could have kept people in a secret prison found near St. Petersburg.