Drug-control officers of the Russian Interior Ministry, together with Moscow’s Western District police and Volgograd Region police, identified and stopped a previously convicted 31-year-old Moscow resident engaged in trafficking drugs and potent substances.[1] The man lived in a flat on Slavyansky Boulevard in Moscow, which officers inspected.[1] Police said he had received the drugs from his handlers to distribute through dead drops and to sell to small- and large-scale wholesale buyers.[1] The suspect was detained and remanded in custody.[1]

Officers seized 270 grams of hashish divided into four wraps in the flat.[1] A second account of the same police release gives the same seizure as 270 grams of hashish in four wraps.[2] They also seized more than 60 kilograms of pregabalin, part stored in capsules and part in plastic containers.[1] Officers also seized empty medicinal casings, a capsule-filling machine, electronic scales, a laptop and other items.[1]

The operation followed operational intelligence developed by the drug-control police with their Moscow and Volgograd colleagues.[1] An investigator of the Western District police opened criminal cases against him on attempted drug sale and potent-substance trafficking charges.[1] The investigation into his activity was continuing.[1]