Two Kyrgyz citizens detained in Moscow region with $8-mln heroin shipment
MOSCOW. April 22 (Interfax) - The police have found about ten kilograms of heroin on a car from Kyrgyzstan stopped at a traffic police post in the Kashira district of the Moscow region.
"The confiscated packages contained diacetylmorphine 45%. The [package] of drugs weighed 9.9 kilograms in total. Some 160,000 doses failed to reach end users," a source at the Moscow regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service told Interfax.
He also said that the black market value of the seized heroin shipment of almost ten kilograms amounted to $8 million.
A criminal case was opened under Russian Criminal Code Article 228 (drug trafficking) and two citizens of Kyrgyzstan were detained. A court ordered their arrest, the representative of Moscow regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service said.
The Opel Astra with Kyrgyz license plates was stopped at a traffic police post in the Kashira district in Operation Izvozchik, he said.
"The driver and his passenger were identified as citizens of Kyrgyzstan born in 1989 and 1991. The young men were very nervous, which caught the attention of the police, and it was decided to search the citizens and examine their car more closely," the source said.
Nothing illegal was found in the initial search, but a closer examination revealed caches in the right and left back wheel arches. Ten plastic bags were hidden on each side.
