Moscow courier held with 6 kg of hashish in a suitcase in Tyumen
Traffic police stopped a 36-year-old Moscow man on the Tyumen–Omsk highway early on 29 March 2022 and found six wrapped packages of hashish, weighed by experts at 6 kg, in his suitcase. He told police he was driving the drug from St Petersburg to Novosibirsk, and a court placed him in pre-trial detention.
State traffic police officers stopped a foreign car on the Tyumen–Omsk highway
early in the morning for a document check.[1]The driver, a man behind the
wheel, showed excessive nervousness, and the officers decided to search the car.[1]On the back seat, inside a suitcase, officers found six packages wrapped in
food film.[1]The driver, a Moscow resident born in 1986, did not deny it and
said he was carrying drugs from St Petersburg to Novosibirsk.[1]
An expert examination of the seized material established that he was carrying
six kilograms of hashish, and he was taken to the police.[1]Investigators
found that the Moscow resident had been spreading drugs for an online shop for
three years.[1]On this trip he had first collected 10 kilograms of hashish in
St Petersburg.[1]Along the way he laid drug stashes, and the journey was to
end in Novosibirsk with the remaining 6 kg of “goods”.[1]For the trip he was
to be paid about one million roubles.[1]
A criminal case was opened against the previously unconvicted 36-year-old man.[1]He was placed in pre-trial detention as a measure of restraint, and the
investigation continued.[1]
Photos and video
Police operational footage of the pressed hashish blocks and wrapped packets taken from the courier's suitcase. Photo: Press service of the Tyumen Oblast Interior MinistryPhoto details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
6 kg
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Other building
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
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The statement gives no separate date for the stop; its own date, 29 March 2022, is used as the incident date and may differ by a day or so from the arrest.
The four kilograms missing from the 10 kg collected in St Petersburg are not recorded as seized in this event, so only the 6 kg found in the car is counted.
No charge article, prosecutor's decision or sentence was reported, and the only custody fact is pre-trial detention; the outcome of the case is unknown.
The driver's name and the exact location on the highway were not published.
Only one accessible account of this event was found, the Tyumen regional police press service statement republished on the Interior Ministry's media portal; searches in Russian surfaced no independent outlet report.
The article and its social-media sharing image both show the same laid-out hashish blocks from police operational footage, so the two entries may be near-identical pictures.
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