FSKN claims freeze on drug lords' billions
MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax) - The Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) has managed to freeze over 3 billion rubles belonging to drug lords, FSKN Director Viktor Ivanov said.
"More than 3.137 billion rubles in dirty money have been frozen and thereby withdrawn from the mafia's turnover," he said at a service board meeting in Moscow on Friday.
"Fiscal assets are like Kashchey the Deathless's deeply hidden magical egg for the mafia, and a crackdown on it is most effective," Ivanov said.
"The tireless efforts of our service have led to the investigation of 1,393 cases of money laundering, in comparison with eight cases investigated by other law enforcement agencies altogether. This means that FSKN is 173 times more productive than the others in this important field," Ivanov said.
A total of 50,000 drug dens and labs have been destroyed and 26 tonnes of opiates, 131 tonnes of cannabis and 18 tonnes of synthetic drugs have been impounded in the past five years, Ivanov said.