Moscow police have raided a flat in the Russian capital thought to be producing DVDs containing child pornography, a police spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Tatyana Agapova said 500 pirated DVDs had been confiscated at Moscow's Tsaritsino market in February. It was later discovered that the movies had been produced in a Moscow flat by a 54-year-old Russian man.
"When police went to investigate, the man did not open the door and began throwing DVDs and computer hard drives out of the window," she said.
When they managed to get into the apartment, the police officers found the man trying to burn the evidence.
"During the search of the studio apartment, more than 1,000 pornographic DVDs containing footage of minors were found, as well as thousands of pirated Russian and foreign movies, including some which had not yet been released on the market," she said.
Equipment for producing pornographic material was also found in the flat. The man was arrested.
MOSCOW, June 10 (RIA Novosti)