Four rap-group members held in Krasnogorsk with 18 kg of hashish
Interior Ministry detectives detained four men, members of the Moscow rap group Rynochnye Otnosheniya, in Krasnogorsk district of Moscow Oblast during a hashish sale in February 2016. Police said testing confirmed 18 kg of Moroccan hashish and opened trafficking and possession cases.
Officers of the Interior Ministry’s Main Criminal Investigation Directorate,
working with Moscow Oblast police, detained four men in Krasnogorsk district
during a sale of drugs.[1]The police press service said two of the detainees
were sellers and two were buyers who intended to resell what they had bought.[2]Bloknot Moskva reported that officers caught the group in the middle of the
transaction.[2]The Interior Ministry press service said the detainees were
members of a rap group.[1]Lenta.ru identified one of the detainees as the
actor and rapper Nikita Ost, whose real name is Nikita Savinkin.[3]Lenta.ru
described Rynochnye Otnosheniya as a Moscow collective that had existed for more
than ten years.[3]
Laboratory testing established that the seized substance was 18 kg of Moroccan
hashish.[1]Investigators opened criminal cases for unlawfully acquiring,
storing, transporting and processing drugs and for unlawfully producing, selling
or mailing them.[1]
On 17 February the Krasnogorsk city court placed Savinkin and Yevgeny Rumyantsev
under house arrest.[4]The same court extended the detention of Anton Setenko
and Sergei Mishko by 72 hours to give investigators time to settle the charges,
the Moscow Oblast court’s press secretary said.[4]
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Lenta.rulenta.ruRUУ рэперов из «Рыночных отношений» нашли 18 килограммов марокканского гашиша
Медиазонаzona.mediaRUДвум участникам группы «Рыночные отношения» суд продлил задержание на 72 часа
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The articles give no separate date for the detention beyond the police statement published on 16 February and the reference to the men being detained the day before; 16 February 2016 is used as the incident date.
The police described two detainees as sellers and two as buyers; the accounts do not say which role each named man had.
The first reports name only Nikita Savinkin; Yevgeny Rumyantsev, Anton Setenko and Sergei Mishko were identified in later coverage of the same detention.
No street value, maximum penalties or later trial outcome are given in these accounts; the case was still at the pre-trial stage when they were published.
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