Cracking heads, breaking records

From Monday's Moscow Times News in Brief section:

Arrests in Pumane Case

MOSCOW (MT) -- Two suspects have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring with Alexander Pumane to carry out an attack on a local businessman in September, Interfax reported Friday -- raising doubt that Pumane had planned a terrorist attack as police claimed.

Pumane was detained Sept. 18 near Patriarch's Ponds with two land mines and 200 grams of TNT in his car. He died several hours later in the hospital after reportedly being interrogated by about 150 law enforcement officers. Doctors said he suffered severe brain injuries.

Prosecutors suspect at least two police officers of severely beating him.

The figure in the second paragraph is either a typo or a rather disturbing commentary on modern Russian law enforcement methods. 150 officers?! Call up the Guinness World Records people - that has to be a new mark for inefficient police brutality. And if only two officers were severely beating the guy, what were the other 148 doing?