A resident of the Moscow region bought a two-storey house with a bathhouse for the production of mephedrone

In the Moscow region, the activities of a large drug laboratory were suppressed, for which the organizer specially purchased a two-story house with a sauna. This was announced on June 10 by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk.

"The attacker completely converted this room into a drug laboratory with closed areas for unloading and storing precursors, manufacturing and drying drugs. A powerful ventilation and air filtration system was also installed there. For security purposes, a modern video surveillance system was placed around the perimeter," she wrote on her Telegram channel.

More than 98 kg of mephedrone and over 1.3 tons of a narcotic mixture containing the same component were seized. The laboratory's productivity was about 300 kg of mephedrone per month, and the wholesale value of the seized substance exceeds half a billion rubles.

"The investigator of the SU of the Department of Internal Affairs for the TINAO of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow has opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Article 30, Part 5 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The sanctions of this article provide for punishment up to life imprisonment," concluded Volk.

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