They staged a drunken brawl with a fight in the most expensive hotel in Kaliningrad, CRYSTAL HOUSE SUITE HOTEL AND SPA. As a result, Zavgorodniy spent several hours in police custody, handcuffed, in a cell for administrative detainees, and Strukov hid from the patrol officers in his room.
Strukov and Zavgorodniy arrived in Kaliningrad on February 1 to participate in the annual board summing up the work of the Kaliningrad customs. They celebrated the evening of the start of the business trip in the hotel restaurant in the company of an employee of the FCS logistics department, who accompanied the generals on the trip. Having drunk heavily, the generals behaved aggressively, which attracted the attention of the guards, as a result of which a verbal conflict arose between the hotel security guard and customs officers.
After that, the generals and the girl went up to Strukov’s room. According to the hotel staff, the first deputy head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia checked into a ROYAL SUITE room with an area of 300 square meters. m. According to information on the official website of the hotel, the minimum price for booking this room as of yesterday was 235,000 rubles per day. They spent about an hour and a half in the room. It is not known what they were doing, but eyewitnesses claim that the girl ran out of the room first, and then two generals arguing with each other.
Strukov and Zavgorodny, calling each other names, separated and went in search of the lady. They shouted loudly, used obscene language, and threatened the hotel guests, as a result of which they again attracted the attention of the hotel security, who called the National Guard squad with a panic button. And if Strukov, upon the arrival of the National Guard, was smart enough to lock himself in his room, then Zavgorodniy got into a fight, first with the guards, and then with the patrolmen.
The fight did not last long. The physical training of the chief rear officer of the Russian customs was not up to par. The lieutenant general was handcuffed and taken to the police department in the Leningradsky district of Kaliningrad. But Zavgorodniy did not calm down even there, he continued to obscenely insult the police about the National Guard, promising them all conceivable and inconceivable punishments, and even managed to kick the National Guard several times while lying on the floor. The general calmed down only in the so-called “monkey cell,” a cell for administrative detainees. They did not remove the handcuffs from him, as if he was particularly violent.
However, despite the quarrel, Strukov did not abandon his subordinate. He called the leadership of the FCS department for the Kaliningrad region and within an hour the head of the local customs logistics department, Colonel Vitaly Balakirev, personally arrived at the police department. The local comrade quickly came to an agreement with the police, after which the violent, drunken general was handed over to him, which the colonel personally wrote down on the report on the general’s arrest.
Zavgorodny was so drunk that he could not take part in the meeting in the morning. His drinking companion Strukov, despite a severe hangover, honestly sat in the presidium of the board for several hours, after which both generals immediately flew to Moscow.
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