Kazan man, 34, held with 17 foil wraps of hashish; more than 13 g seized
Drug police in Kazan detained a 34-year-old man on Gubkina Street and found a plastic case holding 17 foil wraps of hashish with a total mass of more than 13 grams. A criminal case was opened under the drug-trafficking article 228.1, and he was held in custody for the preliminary investigation after police said he fully admitted his guilt.
🇷🇺 Gubkina Street, Kazan, Tatarstan · Russia
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Kazan city interior ministry directorate drug-control unit
Officers of the drug-control unit detained a 34-year-old man on Gubkina Street
in Kazan, the city’s interior ministry directorate said.[1]Police suspect him
of illegally distributing drugs.[1]
During a personal search officers found a plastic case holding 17 wraps of foil.[1]A laboratory examination showed the wraps contained hashish with a total
mass of more than 13 grams, police said.[1]
The man fully admitted his guilt, according to the police.[1]A criminal case
was opened against him under point “b” of part 3 of article 228.1 of the Russian
Criminal Code.[1]He was placed in custody for the duration of the preliminary
investigation.[1]A second Kazan outlet carried the same directorate statement
and published photographs credited to the press service of the Tatarstan
interior ministry.[2]
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The accounts give no date for the detention; 9 November 2026 is the publication date and is used as the incident date.
The hashish weight is stated only as more than 13 grams, so 13 grams is recorded.
Only the age and city of the suspect were published, with no name or court outcome reported.
The offence under point "b" of part 3 of article 228.1 is described only as illegal distribution of drugs; the accounts do not state the amount threshold applied or whether the case alleges sale or another form of distribution.
Both accounts reproduce the same Kazan interior ministry statement and are not independent reporting; the ministry's own page was not opened.
No street value was published, and no figure for the weight or number of doses per wrap was given.
Left out setting, as its quotation was not found in Татарстан 24.
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