Today, the interior Ministry announced the arrest of fifty citizens of Ukraine, which was organized in the Moscow region manufacture of synthetic drugs, which then spread through ten regions. The annual turnover of criminal group in respect of which the investigation Department of the Ministry of internal Affairs is going to initiate a criminal case on organization of criminal community or participation in it exceeded 2 billion rubles.
the Official representative of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk said that the illegal business was organized by citizens of Ukraine in 2015. For a start, they have created a site “Khimprom”, then placed in the Ukrainian media ads with offers of high-paying jobs as couriers or freight forwarders on the territory of Russia. In recruiting points, which is located in Kiev, with the candidates interviews were conducted using the polygraph, they were trained on short courses, in which they explained the rules of e-mail correspondence, the use of payment systems, transportation and packaging of drugs, as well as ways of organizing caches.
employee issued a credit card, designed for dummies, fake passports and driver’s licenses of citizens of the Russian Federation, as well as the telecommunications device with installed Internet messengers for which they have received instructions from the organizers of drug cartels.
during a large-scale operation conducted by employees of the main Department on control over drug trafficking of the interior Ministry of Russia, regional police units and the FSB, was discovered three laboratories “Khimprom” production of synthetic drugs were located in Istra, Krasnogorsk and Odintsovo districts of the Moscow region. In a week they produced from 150 to 500 kg of spice. Moreover, for complex chemical production was used not only laboratory equipment, but also household baths, washing machines and so on. Detainees manufacturers have told that they came to work in Russia from Zaporozhye. According to them, they released “crystals” containing drugs, which the drivers then were sent to wholesale markets. With each batch of mini-production received $ 8.9 million
the finished stocks of drugs were in 14 regions, including in Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Voronezh, Chelyabinsk, Rostov, Omsk and Irkutsk regions and in the Krasnoyarsk territory and the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.
from There, the spice was purchased including bitcoin and Bank transfers using cards opened in the names of other people. The annual turnover of the group amounted to more than 2 billion.
“Of trafficking police seized more than 4 tons of synthetic drugs, 3.5 tons of precursors, 250 pieces of laboratory equipment, nine vehicles, more than 2 million rubles, 18 fake Russian passports. Arrested 67 members of the gang, 47 of whom are citizens of Ukraine”,— said Irina the Wolf.
Initially, the criminal cases against participants of the drug was filed in the Moscow and Sverdlovsk regions. However, assessing the scale of illegal business, now they are in their production accepted and joined the staff of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of interior. Investigators believe that the actions of the detainees were kept such serious crimes as the organization of criminal community or participation in it (article 210 of the criminal code) and soon going to add it to the charges.
Nicholas Sergeyev