In St. Petersburg, police liquidate drug trafficking channel from Baltic states 22:04

Law enforcement, with the strong support of the Grom police unit, completed a months-long special operation to eliminate the channel that trafficked illegal psychoactive substances from the Baltic states to Russia. It has been reported MIA Media.

The publication was published in St. Petersburg police detained a truck coming from Belarus. In the examination, cannabis briquettes with a total weight of 402 kg were found and seized. Then they calculated and arrested the recipient of the cargo. During a special operation to set up the drug trafficking scheme and its participants, security forces detained a smuggled marijuana cargo from Lithuania in two 209-liter barrels, each disguised as foreign engine oil. Later, the police arrested four more participants in the illegal plot, but this is not the final figure, as the department clarified.

As previously reported, Russian tried to move 25 kg of drugs by taxi from St. Petersburg to Novosibirsk, but the drug courier was detained in the Tyumen region. He now faces up to 20 years in prison.



Source: Gazeta

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