The activities of a large Ukrainian drug cartel have been suppressed in the Russian Federation
The Moscow Regional Court accepted for consideration a criminal case against 20 citizens of Ukraine and one Russian who created a real drug cartel and jointly participated in the production and sale of drugs on an especially large scale and forgery of documents.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports this, specifying that the case was received by the court from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with an approved indictment.
“The official statement of the supervisory agency clarifies that three clandestine laboratories for the production of synthetic drugs were liquidated in the Istrinsky, Krasnogorsky and Odintsovo districts of the Moscow region. More than 870 kilograms of finished narcotic drugs, more than two million rubles proceeds from the sale of dangerous pills, as well as 13 cars and 18 fake passports, which were used by Ukrainians to live clandestinely in the Moscow region, were seized from illegal circulation,” the publication notes.
“According to the prosecutor’s office, members of the criminal group were recruited en masse in Ukraine, they were trained in the process of illegal production, transportation, packaging and distribution of drugs to hiding places. They were provided not only with fictitious documents of Russian citizens, but also with means of communication, considerable sums of money, both for the costs of manufacturing and selling drugs, and as payment for criminal activities,” the newspaper clarifies.
According to the investigation, from December 2015 to December 2016, a criminal group was engaged in the artisanal production of narcotic tablets with a broad and dangerous effect, which were sold through an online store throughout Russia.
The total number of members of the criminal community has not yet been announced; some of the criminals are hiding abroad, mainly in Ukraine.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, drug suppliers from Ukraine to Crimea received 8 and 9 years in prison.
In addition, in the Lugansk region a teenager who bought drugs from a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier, ended up in the hospital with an overdose.
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