[Regnum] In the Chelyabinsk region, police officers liquidated a large drug lab in which more than 427 kg of drugs were found. This was reported by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk on her Telegram channel.
"The operatives discovered an illegal production facility in a private home in the Kartalinsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region. There, two criminals were manufacturing a synthetic narcotic. In the laboratory itself, the police officers found more than 427 kg of narcotics and about 1 ton of precursors," she said in the publication.
Volk specified that the approximate value of the seized prohibited substances exceeds 1.5 billion rubles. According to her, about 1 million single doses of drugs did not reach consumers.
"They placed the drugs ready for sale in hiding places, from where they were picked up by couriers from other regions. Each cache was a large batch weighing 15-20 kg," Volk also reported.
The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs added that the investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Chelyabinsk Region initiated criminal cases under articles on attempted crime and illegal production, sale or shipment of drugs (Articles 30 and 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The criminal chemists are currently in custody.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in March, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also discovered two large drug labs in Ramenskoye near Moscow and seized about 200 kg of mephedrone worth about 800 million rubles. Two local residents and a native of the Orenburg region were detained. Investigators opened a criminal case. The defendants were taken into custody.