More than 1 kg of drugs worth 6 million rubles were seized from a resident of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In Lesosibirsk, police officers seized more than 1 kg of drugs worth at least 6 million rubles from circulation. This was announced on Thursday, May 29, by the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

"During the operational search activities, employees of the Department for drug trafficking control of the OMVD of Russia detained a previously convicted local resident born in 1997," the department said in a Telegram channel.

During the search, the police found and seized a small bag, a package and a metal box with a powdery substance from the man. Another small package of narcotic drugs was found by law enforcement officers during a house search.

Upon the discovery of drugs, a criminal case was opened on an attempt to illegally sell narcotic drugs on an especially large scale (Part 3 of art. 30, Part 5 of art. 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

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Some of the defendants managed to escape after the jury acquitted them.

On May 20, 10 kg of synthetic drugs worth over 150 million rubles were seized in the Amur region. Law enforcement officers stopped the activities of a Russian citizen who intended to organize an illegal sales channel for prohibited substances. It was reported that a criminal case was opened against a 24-year-old citizen under Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal production, sale or transfer of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues").