The court sentenced those accused of smuggling 95 kg of heroin to 18 and 14 years in a penal colony.

The Moscow Regional Court found Muzaffar Ishbabayev and Botiral Ulashev guilty of attempted drug trafficking and smuggling, and sentenced them to 14 and 18 years in prison, respectively. This was reported to Izvestia in court on May 4.

A criminal case was opened after the men were detained in Krasnogorsk. The court found that on February 19, 2024, Ulashev, acting on the instructions of an unidentified person, driving a truck, transported 95.5 kg of heroin across the State border of the Russian Federation. The narcotic substance was hidden from the border and customs control in the boards.

The accused arrived in Krasnogorsk on February 21 and stopped at the side of the Ilyinsky highway. The second defendant, Ishbabayev, drove up to this place in a passenger car, into which he and Ulashev loaded some heroin. On the same day, in the evening, both were detained, and the drug was discovered and seized by law enforcement officers.

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