Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs prevented an attempt to distribute a two-hundred-kilogram consignment of cocaine from Latin America in St. Petersburg. According to Interfax, this was announced by the official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry Irina Volk.
“The channel for the supply of cocaine on an especially large scale to the Russian Federation from Latin American countries has been blocked. The police seized more than 200 kg of cocaine, the value of which at black market prices exceeds 800 million rubles,” Volk told reporters on Friday.
According to a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two local residents who had previously been repeatedly convicted were detained in St. Petersburg. The police found that the defendants equipped caches with drugs in a truck transporting fruits.
A criminal case has been initiated under Articles 30 and 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempt to commit a crime and illegal production, sale or transfer of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues).
At the moment, the police are establishing participants in the scheme for supplying drugs to the territory of Russia and the channels for their distribution.
Source: Rosbalt
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