FSKN cracks down on drug distribution networks
MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - The Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) has shut down almost 40 drug dens and several drug distribution networks over the past week.
"FSKN officers shut down a number of large distribution networks and 38 drug dens in the period from March 16 to March 22, 2015. Some 27.5 kilograms of heroin, 230 kilograms of hashish, 226 kilograms of marijuana, 61 kilograms of synthetic drugs and one kilogram of psychotropic substances, in all, 207 wholesale deliveries, were seized," the service said in a report.
"That quantity of drugs was sufficient for making about 4.3 million doses," it said.
The service cracked down on drug leaders in the Moscow city and region, St. Petersburg, the Leningrad region, the Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk territories, the Kaluga, Kursk, Omsk, Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk and Yaroslavl regions and the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region.
