Blogger in Moscow finds an abandoned police station brimming with old passports and internal docs

A Moscow blogger named Lana Sator has made quite the discovery on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya Street, finding an old abandoned police station and migration service building still brimming with sensitive internal records. On Instagram, Sator shared several photographs of hundreds of documents piled high in various rooms, including people’s passports (with pictures attached), felony and misdemeanor case files, personal files, and police personnel records.

“The cherry on top was a bunch of long-ago expired Army rations and a pile of blank police forms from the 1980s,” Sator wrote online. “An unremarkable abandoned building with broken windows and an eerie entryway. It's strange even that the homeless still haven’t settled here.”

After Sator drew attention to the site, Moscow police officers cordoned off the building and started an investigation. Local law enforcement and the Federal Investigative Committee say they’re looking into the matter and considering a criminal negligence case, according to the newspaper Kommersant.