Federal Security Service (FSB)
🇷🇺 Russia · Police · 11 reports
- People arrested
- 10
- Plants destroyed
- 36,505
- Cannabis seized
- 807.198 kg
Totals of what these reports state; a report counts when a source it cites names the agency.
Kosteryovo garage owner held with 5 kg of plants and 60 g marijuana
Vladimir police detained a 51-year-old car-service owner from Kosteryovo in late October, seizing plant material and over 60 grams of ready marijuana plus scales and grinding tools at his home and garage. He was remanded in custody while investigators pursued two cases alleging possession and attempted large-scale cannabis sale.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 60 g27,778 cannabis plants destroyed in Primorye Mak-2026 first stage
Primorsky Krai police completed the first stage of Operation Mak-2026, reporting 27,778 cannabis bushes among almost 28,000 drug plants seized or destroyed and 35 wild-cannabis foci covering over 18 hectares. More than 23,500 of the cannabis bushes came from illegal plantings in Nadezhdinsky district, where criminal cultivation cases were opened.
Plants destroyed 27,778Area 18 haPolice destroy more than 4,700 wild cannabis plants in Bikin district
During operation Mak-2026, drug-control officers in Bikin district of Khabarovsk Krai, with Bikin police and the regional FSB, destroyed more than 4,700 wild cannabis plants on a one-hectare belt in a forest strip bordering a village, burning about 320 kilograms of material after uprooting and herbicide treatment.
Plants destroyed 4,700Area 1 haCannabis 320 kgKrasnoyarsk court gives garage cannabis grower seven and a half years
A 37-year-old Krasnoyarsk man was sentenced to seven and a half years in a strict-regime colony for growing about 48 cannabis plants in two rooms of his garage in the Yemelyanovsky district. Officers seized 26 kg of marijuana, 600 g of cannabis oil, 2 kg of plant parts and 50 g of hashish.
Charged 1Cannabis 26 kgPrison 7 years 6 months (strict regime)Three Saransk men jailed for a Kovylkino cannabis farm and stash
A Mordovia court sentenced three Saransk men to between 9.5 and 10.5 years in strict-regime colonies for cultivating more than 80 cannabis plants in Kovylkino district and attempting to sell marijuana after a September 2025 raid found plants, dried material and packaged cannabis in a Pushkin Street garage.
Charged 3Plants destroyed 82Cannabis 9.738 kgPrison 9.5 to 10.5 yearsTwo Primorye men get 10 and 11 years for harvesting 100 kg of wild cannabis
Khankaysky district court sentenced two local men to 10 and 11 years in strict-regime colonies for preparing more than 100 kilograms of wild cannabis near Komissarovo after the regional FSB seized sacks of tops they had dried in fields using a quad bike; the judgment took effect.
Charged 2Cannabis 100 kgPrison 10 and 11 yearsCustoms officers seize three kilograms of marijuana from a US parcel in Pyatigorsk
North Caucasus and Central postal customs officers found about three kilograms of marijuana in 32 plastic bags hidden in a parcel from San Francisco addressed to a 47-year-old Pyatigorsk man. He was detained when he collected the shipment, admitted ordering the drug from abroad, and was remanded in custody on a large-scale smuggling charge.
Arrested 1Cannabis 3 kgPolice destroy more than 3,700 wild cannabis plants in Khabarovsk Krai
In operation Mak-2025, officers in Komsomolsky and Nikolaevsky districts of Khabarovsk Krai burned 659 and 3,129 wild cannabis plants on two plots near Molodezhny and Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, with reported plant masses of 198 and 94 kilograms.
Plants destroyed 3,788Cannabis 292 kgFour held in Yakutsk chase as 1.4 kg of hashish seized
Police in Yakutsk detained two of four alleged hashish dealers after a car chase on Larionova Street, seizing 227 packets weighing about 1 kg plus a pistol and knuckleduster. The two who fled later surrendered with about 400 grams, and all four face an attempted large-scale sale case with two jailed and two under travel restrictions.
Arrested 4Cannabis 1.4 kgTwo held after fire and escape bid at a Kursk Oblast cannabis grow house
Police and FSB officers in Zheleznogorsk district, Kursk Oblast, broke up an indoor cannabis operation run by a 29-year-old man from Perm Krai and arrested him and an accomplice, seizing 157 plants and about 5 kg of marijuana prepared for sale. The organiser locked the doors and set the building alight as officers arrived, and both suspects were remanded in custody.
Arrested 2Plants destroyed 157Cannabis 5 kgSites 1FSB seizes about 50 kg of marijuana in a Sargazy hangar; two held
Chelyabinsk regional FSB officers seized about 50 kg of marijuana from a hiding place in a company hangar and detained two 23-year-old residents of Sargazy village in Sosnovsky district, who had bought it to resell. One of them fled and was arrested on the Moscow–Novorossiysk train; the case went to court by December 2010.
Arrested 2Cannabis 50 kg