According to another version, the treasure was hidden by a certain secret police officer from Lipetsk, and the silver coins had been confiscated from the wealthy. This theory is supported by claims that there were inventory numbers on the cups and canvas bags containing the rubles from the time of Nicholas II. Additionally, according to some unconfirmed reports, after the Russian Revolution, a branch of the local Cheka (secret police) was located in the former house of the merchant Kotelnikov. Later, in the 1960s, the building housed a military recruitment office. In his book on the Lipetsk counterintelligence officers, Sergey Aleksandrovich Razbirin wrote, “The decision to establish a department to combat counter-revolution, speculation, looting, and sabotage was taken on May 13, 1918, at a meeting of the Council of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies of the Lipetsk Uyezd… The headquarters of the local Cheka were first located on Troitskaya (now Kommunalnaya) Square, then on the corner of Internatsionalnaya and Zegel Streets, and then at 39 Pervomayskaya Street.” There is no information about the secret police headquarters on Kuznechnaya Street. Therefore, none of these versions shed light on the origin of the treasure with silver coins.